World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on June 19 highlights sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder where red blood cells become sickle-shaped, causing pain, poor blood flow, and health issues.

An overview of World Sickle Cell Anemia Day 2025 and the global and local challenges of managing sickle cell disease.

This graduate pushed through the pain of sickle cell anemia, never letting his condition interfere with his academic progress ...

Illuminating public buildings in red, candlelight vigils, and walks are among events planned for World Sickle Cell Day, June ...

A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

As World Blood Donor Day nears, health experts stress the crucial need for Black donors to help patients with sickle cell ...

Some doctors told him he'd live with the disease forever, but Khaled Alsheebani never stopped believing treatments would advance one day.

Fluorescent molecules that respond to changes in viscosity could provide a fast, accurate tool to probe the mechanical ...

In honor of this year's World Sickle Cell Day, columnist Dunstan Nicol-Wilson recognizes several organizations that are making a difference.

Orphan Drug Designation is awarded to therapies intended to treat rare diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the ...