FOR her creativity in supporting the effort to raise awareness of sickle cell disease, Kerri Bascom received a $500 cash award. Ms Bascom took part in the Bahamas Sickle Cell Association Logo ...

June 19th is not only Juneteenth, it is also World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 Americans. However, researchers are working on a new way to cure it.

The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center on the LSU Health Shreveport campus is hosting an art exhibit featuring works created by patients, caregivers, staff, and local artists to raise awareness of sickle ...

23andMe will offer its Health + Ancestry Service at no cost for up to 1,000 eligible* participants who are 18 years or older and have African ancestry or ancestry from a region where sickle cell ...

The events include a Sickle Cell Awareness Walk and picnic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at Hidden Lake Park, ... The logo was designed in the 1980s by Chesterton resident Deano Recktenwall.

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month and Jones is sharing her experience so people become aware of the need to be screened, to raise the need for blood and bone marrow donors and to encourage ...

Clayton County plans to light up the old courthouse on Saturday to bring greater awareness to the impact of sickle cell anemia. As many Americans celebrate Juneteenth for the first time as a ...

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, and it affects approximately 100,000 Americans ...

September was National Sickle Cell Awareness Month and as prevalent as the disease is, many people have no idea what it’s about or how to respond when friends have it. 1 in 365 people of African ...

Saturday is World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, and the organization Sickle Cell 365 partnered with the American Red Cross Chapter in Tallahassee to hold a blood drive. Skip to content.

ST. LOUIS, MO. (KTVI)-Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic blood disease in the country, impacting more than 70,000 people in the U.S., and is a very serious condition. But, there is a la… ...

--23 andMe Holding Co., a leading human genetics and biopharmaceutical company, and the non-profit Sickle Cell 101, have joined forces to expand awareness of people’ s sickle cell carrier status.