The incidence of stroke continues to increase for adults and children living with sickle cell disease (SCD), despite the ...

For people with SCD, hemoglobin S (a mutated protein that transports oxygen) causes red blood cells to become curved ...

You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?

People with sickle cell are vulnerable to strokes caused by a blood vessel to the brain either bursting or becoming clogged, researchers said. Following a landmark 1998 clinical trial, doctors adopted ...

Sickle cell trait (SCT) differs vastly from sickle cell disease. SCT is a genetic condition when someone inherits one sickle ...

September marks Awareness Month, and this year, the INOVA Schar Adult Center hosted a pivotal town meeting to unite advocates ...

It’s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.

About 100,000 Americans, mostly Black, have sickle cell disease, shortening lifespans, delaying puberty, damaging spleens and causing infections.

In people with healthy red blood cells, hemoglobin proteins carry oxygen as the cells circulate throughout the body. In patients with sickle cell, the namesake cells form when mutant hemoglobin ...

The American Red Cross urges African American and Latino blood donors to donate to help meet the transfusion needs of those ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and collaborators have found that being a carrier for sickle cell disease, ...