Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them African American. It ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited condition that follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. Even if you don’t have sickle cell anemia, you could be a carrier of the gene for it. Sickle cell ...

Sickle cell anemia is the most serious form of sickle cell disease (SCD). It occurs when a person inherits an irregular hemoglobin gene from each parent. Certain groups of people are more at risk of ...

The young woman was curled up in a ball. She was sweating and shivering from pain. As she answered my questions — all my many, many questions — tears fell silently from her eyes. I was a third-year ...

For years, my family struggled to understand the constant, mysterious pain my younger sister and I endured. Her cries were so frequent that she earned the nickname “Holly” because she was always ...

For more than a year, NeDina Brocks-Capla avoided one room in her large, brightly colored San Francisco house — the bathroom on the second floor. "It was really hard to bathe in here, and I found ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A mother of two with sickle cell disease met several blood donors who helped save her life. The New York Blood Center held the reunion on Valentine's Day. Stacey Sottile is a ...

Teonna Woolford has always said that when it came time to build a family, her ideal would be to have six kids. Why six? "I don't know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn't enough," ...

(CBS/AP) A sickle cell trait will keep Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Clark out of Sunday's AFC Wild Card game in Denver. The trait makes it dangerous for the 32-year-old to play in the high ...