A Milwaukee author living with sickle cell disease is transforming his lifelong battle with pain into advocacy, while ...

Most individuals living with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department with a pain crisis, known as ...

Those with an extreme pain crisis mis-triaged with a less severe category waited nearly three times as long for medication.

Life expectancy has soared and interest in the disease is growing, but breakthrough gene therapies are extraordinarily expensive.

Research from the National Institutes of Health shows that wind can aid in increasing pain for sickle cell patients, primarily because of the way their blood cells are shaped. The NIH found that ...

In a human body, cells are constantly making life-or-death decisions. If they make the wrong choice, the result can be cancer. It may be possible to treat diseases by influencing this behavior.

Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, Altos Labs, advocates a disease-agnostic approach, but first, he said, “we must understand the mechanism, something that is core to the cell.” ...

More than 4 million people worldwide have end-stage kidney disease that requires hemodialysis, a treatment in which a machine ...

Scientists have identified an unusual type of brain cell that may play a vital role in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), ...

LaRuby May and her legal team are representing clients who were harmed by the withdrawn Pfizer drug, Oxbryta, and are advocating for research and treatments for sickle cell disease.