Negative descriptors were present in 15% of notes for sickle cell patients; 14% of notes for patients with opioid use ...

Dr. Swee Lay Thein and Dr. Stuart Orkin won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work toward a ...

In season 1, episode 2 of the popular show "The Pitt," a Black woman with sickle cell disease arrives at the emergency ...

Study finds sickle cell disease bias in clinical notes is linked more to opioid use than race or chronic pain in healthcare ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's been more than a month since the FDA approved two milestone gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease, but lining up patients for these therapies will be a challenge ...

Female adolescents and adults with sickle cell disease are at risk for a range of menstrual complications, especially pain and abnormal uterine bleeding. That’s according to the authors of a new multi ...

Serenity Cole lives in St. Louis with her grandmother, Theresa Cole. Serenity is doing well after being one of the first patients to get a gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease under a new ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded researchers involved in developing gene therapies for blindness and sickle cell ...

Andrea Matthews poses with her son Jonathan Matthews. She started the foundation because her son lives with sickle cell disease. Michelle Parr's sickle cell disease went undiagnosed for 25 years. Her ...

Individuals living with sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa face disparities in treatment and health care access when ...

By Alexandria Green Jones As momentum builds around new sickle cell legislation in Georgia, advocates say a deeper issue continues to threaten the very communities the disease impacts most. Black-led ...

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