Under the agreement, participating states will receive “discounts and rebates” from the drugmakers if the treatments don’t ...

Clifton Kirkman II moves through life with an invisible weight on his shoulders — and in his blood. A Detroit-based father, journalist, and patient advocate, Clifton has lived with sickle cell disease ...

Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...

He’s got new blood. A Long Island hospital said it administered life-changing Lyfgenia gene therapy treatment and successfully wiped away sickle cell disease from a Laurelton man. Cohen Children’s ...

If you or someone you know has sickle cell disease (SCD), you may have heard of Lyfgenia, one of two gene therapies approved for this condition. Gene therapies are the only treatments for SCD that can ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as ...

WESTLAND, Mich. — For D’Asia Jackson, every day is a guessing game over whether excruciating pain will upend her life. The 28-year-old medical assistant was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited ...

Sickle cell patients are fighting to save a specialist NHS unit they rely on during pain crises, warning that A&E delays and ...

TERRIBLE. NEBRASKA ADVOCATES URGE PEOPLE TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES TO SUPPORT SICKLE CELL AWARENESS MONTH. THE RED BLOOD CELL DISORDER AFFECTS 8 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. PATIENTS REQUIRE REGULAR BLOOD ...

Although sickle cell disease (SCD) is not as widespread in the Philippines compared to other populations, it is still worth knowing what this disease is all about, especially as we observe World ...