Darlaine and Dwight Carson say they both knew they carried the sickle cell trait but never imagined their daughter would have it. They were forced to make a scary yet lifesaving decision to sign off ...

Blood transfusion therapy remains an indispensable intervention in the management of sickle cell disease (SCD), mitigating life‐threatening complications such as vaso‐occlusive crises and stroke. The ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Red Cross mission to prevent and relieve human suffering continues even when there's not an emergency, from installing smoke alarms to collecting blood donations, and being in a ...

Eight-year-old Zedric Cook is a people person, so his mom wasn’t surprised that he liked being the face of a local blood drive. “A lot of people were looking at him and taking pictures with him,” said ...

Given the remarkable advances seen with gene therapies for sickle cell disease (SCD), it may seem counterintuitive to suggest the space may be in need of more therapies that have already been ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – For the more than ...

A pioneering gene therapy for inherited blood disorders has been given to a patient in the UAE for the first time. Known as Casgevy, the potentially life-changing treatment involves deactivating a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet described ...

TDT is a serious, life-threatening genetic disease. TDT patients report health-related quality of life scores below the general population and significant health care resource utilization. TDT ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — As National Minority Health Month concludes, The Blood Connection is urging Black and Brown donors in the Lowcountry to participate in a community blood drive aimed at ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: VRTX) announced today a reimbursement agreement with the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) for eligible transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT) and severe sickle ...