A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding ...

Often, that life is cut short; on average, those without sickle cell anemia live 20 years longer than those with the disease. Two new gene therapies hope to change that—and so far, one in ...

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For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first person in New York to be cured of the disease ...

Sickle Cell Anemia Symptoms and How to Manage Them Medically reviewed by Julie Scott, DNP, ANP-BC, AOCNP — Written by Jennifer M. Edwards on January 11, 2024 Fatigue ...

Last May, a 12-year-old with sickle cell anemia was the first person to receive a new gene therapy to treat the disease. The process is painful, expensive, and still frightening and uncertain, but ...

Observed annually on June 19, World Sickle Cell Anemia Day draws global attention to an inherited blood disorder.Sickle cell anemia is a condition that alters the shape and function of red blood ...

Sickle cell anemia. An inherited type of anemia where the child has abnormally shaped red blood cells. Cooley's anemia (thalassemia). A different inherited form of anemia with abnormal red blood ...

The FDA approved the first gene therapies for sickle cell anemia. The two approved treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, will cost $2.2 million and $3.1 million. Casgevy is the first therapy to use ...

Often, that life is cut short; on average, those without sickle cell anemia live 20 years longer than those with the disease. Two new gene therapies hope to change that—and so far, one in ...

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