“Sickle cell was body adaptation to fight malaria in endemic zones, genetically people are born with it,” explains Dr Rae. Dr Bernard Awuonda, a pediatrician at JOORTH, adds that Nyanza’s ...

Dr Simon Frimpong Osei, the Administrator of Kwesimintsim Hospital, has warned of rising malaria, typhoid, and respiratory infections due to the rainy season.

Sickle cell disease can lead to a severe complication known as acute chest syndrome (ACS), but the underlying mechanisms are ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.

Gerald Quartey, 18, recently became the first patient to receive Lyfgenia, a one-time, cell-based gene therapy for Sickle Cell Disease for adults and adolescents 12 and older.

For some patients, it amounts to a functional cure. Vertex estimates that around 35,000 sickle cell and beta thalassemia patients across the US and Europe could benefit from Casgevy.

Families in Philadelphia with sickle cell disease are hopeful and advocate for a cure Three-year-old Kaliph Eubanks is full of happy energy playing at the park in the Germantown section of ...