After four years of battling a severe blood disease, five-year-old Zion Ortiz is finally free of sickle cell anemia.

(InvestigateTV) — A gene therapy recently approved by the FDA to treat patients with Sickle Cell Anemia is now being administered in St. Louis. In 2023, the FDA approved Lyfgenia, developed by ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WRIC) — As September marks National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month, a local man’s story highlights a critical need in the community — compatible blood donations. For more than ...

Medical history has recently been made in a New York City hospital. This month, 21-year-old Sebastien Beauzile became the first man in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia, a genetic ...

December 12, 2011 — Children with sickle cell anemia who receive the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine are no more likely to be hospitalized for sickle cell crisis than children with sickle cell ...

Amy Cohen is running the New York City Marathon despite living with the painful effects of sickle cell disease.

A 30-year-old New Jersey woman was charged with two felonies after police said she lied about having sickle cell anemia and refused to pay for over $560,000 in treatment from a hospital in Lancaster ...