Kumar's daughter diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anaemia, highlighting challenges faced by tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh.

Sickle cell is the most common genetic blood disorder in the UK with approximately 17,500 people living with the condition. The disease which typically affects people of African and Caribbean ...

Avianah Drakeford was born with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that negatively affects how blood moves around the body. It's not life-threatening, but it is life-altering. "The last thing ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - About 100,000 people in the U.S. are living with sickle cell disease. Most of them are of African descent. A blood drive Saturday aims to fill a need for those patients.

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood cells to take on a deformed, sickle-like shape, thus giving the disease its name.

Pfizer's reported interest in acquiring sickle cell disease specialist Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT) has been confirmed, with the $68.50-per-share deal valuing GBT at $5.4 billion. As we ...

reducing the tendency of red blood cells to deform into the characteristic sickle cell and be destroyed. If it comes to fruition, etavopivat will give Novo Nordisk a late-stage SCD programme to ...