For patients, every encounter is a test not just of the healthcare system, but of whether they are believed and respected. For clinicians, every encounter is an opportunity. The first half hour can ...

We get a call for a girl having a “sickle cell crisis” in the projects on Osborn Street, in the East New York section of Brooklyn. My partner Bronson’s brow wrinkles as he scans the computer screen ...

When Amy Cohen, 29, finished the New York City Marathon, she broke ground as the first person with the illness to run the ...

A specialist from Oman, located at the crossroads of Africa and Asia, explains that his nation serves as a microcosm when it ...

Growing up, as the searing pain of a sickle cell crisis would spread through her veins, Tanjila Bolden-Myers would ask her mother if this time, it would kill her. “I ask her now to this day, ‘Mom, how ...

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy, eliminated vaso-occlusive crises in 97% of participants with severe sickle cell disease. The therapy led to substantial ...

Amy Cohen is running the New York City Marathon despite living with the painful effects of sickle cell disease.

Researchers have found a link between the release from malformed red blood cells of the vital protein that carries oxygen and episodes of severe pain in people with sickle cell disease. The discovery ...

Somewhere between a whisper and a groan, he murmured, “Mommy, it hurts.” Then he curled his six-year old body into ball and collapsed onto the floor. It was Christmas Day, 2018. And for the first time ...

WASHINGTON — A cold windy day might be a nuisance for most people, but for those suffering from sickle cell, it could mean a day of extra pain. Research from the National Institutes of Health shows ...