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 anemia causes a person’s red blood cells to become sickle-shaped rather than disc-shaped, which can result in ...

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

This genetic variant is common among people from specific ethnic groups because the sickle shape of the red blood cell is "inhospitable to the parasite that causes malaria", said red blood cell ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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