HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — There is an incredible story of love and sacrifice out of Plant City that helped to heal a little girl from sickle cell disease. Aliyah Reid spent the first five ...

In the United States, about 1 out of 500 African-American children born will have sickle-cell anaemia. Sickle-cell anaemia is the name of a specific form of sickle-cell disease in which there is ...

The quality of life of patients with sickle cell anemia is severely compromised similar to or even worse than patients with other chronic diseases such as arthritis. Patients who responded to ...

Among more than 2,000 children with sickle cell anemia, the most severe form of ... show that hydroxyurea has strong benefit in the first couple of years of usage," George explained.