SRT CEO Patrick Girondi and Artist and Project Manager Megan Euker with newly restored San Rocco sculpture, Altamura, Italy.

States representing about 84% of Medicaid beneficiaries are participating in an initiative that enables the U.S. government ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell ...

Safi Biotherapeutics (Safi), a biotechnology company producing stem-cell derived, manufactured human red blood cell (mRBC) ...

CMS has reached agreements with drug manufacturers to provide gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease to Medicaid recipients under a new outcomes-based model. A total of 33 states, including the ...

By Deslyn A Joseph Dr. Edda Hadeed, the President of the Sickle Cell Association of Antigua and Barbuda (SCAAB), will be seeking to educate residents and the ...

The most severe form of sickle cell disease, sickle cell anemia causes red blood cells to be sickle- or crescent-shaped, rather than a disc. That distortion causes the cells to get stuck in the ...

The hallmark symptom of sickle cell anemia is pain, particularly episodes of sudden pain, sometimes called sickle cell crises.

Vertex's gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, Casgevy, has been given the nod for use by the NHS in England after an earlier rejection.

The model was initially launched by the Biden administration in February 2023, and CMS announced that SCD would be the first focus of the model the following January. This is the ...

“The Hill County of Texas is a magical place, especially for children going to camp there,” the Texas native said. “It’s a cherished memory you carry with you all your life. My daughter was actually a ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye, a doctor, sorts through the difference between sickle cell anemia and sickle cell disease — and more.