This summer, the halls of the Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld® will echo with laughter, music, and the resilient ...

Gabriella Ngang, of Farmington Hills, is one of three in Michigan to take part in a clinical trial of a new sickle cell ...

Extreme pain, known as a pain crisis, is one of the hallmark symptoms of SCD. With frequent hospitalizations, chronic pain ...

Yvette Hendricks was born with sickle cell disease in 1961, a time when many patients would not have been expected to live much beyond their teenage years. Hendricks, however, spent a lifetime defying ...

Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the U.S., and 90% of patients are Black, according to NIH.

June 19th is not only Juneteenth, it is also World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 Americans. However, researchers are working on a new way to cure it.

Families of those who have sickle cell disease in the Philadelphia area are pushing for more research and a cure.

Sickle cell disease is one of the most common genetic blood disorders in the world. It affects millions globally, with the ...

Individuals with sickle cell disease – a chronic illness where misshapen, sticky blood cells clump together, reducing oxygen delivery to organs – are at a higher risk for stroke and resulting ...

Sickle cell disease, given it’s name for the abnormal C-shape the red blood cells take — similar to a sickle farm tool or a crescent moon — occurs when there’s a genetic mutation in a ...