More than two years after its approval, only about 60 patients across the U.S., Middle East, and Europe have been treated ...

Two Pee Dee siblings are officially cured of sickle cell disease after more than a decade of living with the genetic blood ...

Under the agreement, participating states will receive “discounts and rebates” from the drugmakers if the treatments don’t ...

Gene therapy is a medical treatment that works by changing or fixing a person's genes to treat or prevent disease ...

At the weekend in Kampala, a piece of news landed that could reshape the future of one of the world’s most neglected diseases. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had accepted a ...

NHS Scotland has approved a one-time CRISPR gene therapy for severe sickle cell disease, offering durable reduction in vaso-occlusive crises for eligible patients.

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin, and in sickle cell disease, aberrant ...

Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

A parasite that causes malaria is halted by sickle cells and makes people who carry the sickle cell trait more resistant to the disease. This is why sickle cell trait also occurs more in people who ...

The second floor of the Indiana Statehouse was filled with "Warriors" on Monday as more than 1,700 Hoosiers living with ...