The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an ...

The disease gets its name because when you have SCD, your red blood cells look like a sickle, which is a C-shaped farm tool. Normal red blood cells are round and pliable. With sickle cell ...

Sickle cell disease doesn’t discriminate, but it does disproportionately affect those with the least access to healthcare ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at the Medical University of South Carolina ...

Pneumococcal meningitis was associated with a case-fatality rate of almost 30% in children with sickle cell disease, a study ...

Poster Presentation: Pharmacokinetics (PK), Pharmacodynamics (PD), and Safety of the Novel Oral Fetal Hemoglobin (HBF) Induer Pociredir in Healthy Adults in a Phase 1 study (PF1170 – Friday, June 13) ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC joined forces to create and test an ...

Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Pain crises are a primary feature of sickle cell disease, triggering pain when crescent-shaped blood cells block the flow of oxygen to ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

The Trump administration has gutted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Blood Disorders, a move that has thrown the future of Michigan’s sickle cell disease registry into ...

Researchers in India have created the ICMR-SCD Stigma Scale (ISSSI) to assess stigma in sickle cell disease patients and ...

A new study reveals that over one in four Indian children under 12 carry inherited blood disorders. The findings highlight ...