In a registry-based analysis, more hospitalized children with SCD and COVID-19 had severe infection requiring supplemental oxygen, compared with the general population. According to the registry-based ...

For generations, Sickle Cell Disease has been a devastating illness affecting millions of people around the world, ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Children ages 12 and older with sickle cell are now eligible for a newly FDA-approved treatment through the MACC Fund Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's Wisconsin.

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Amid doctors’ calls for protective ...

An AIIMS Bhopal study found hidden heart, kidney and sleep-related complications in children with sickle cell disease. Read ...

Within 12 hours of landing in Florida in January, 2021, Sebastien Beauzile, then 17, was admitted to two separate hospitals. He had come to Florida to surprise his sister for her birthday. But instead ...

A recent study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhopal has stressed the need for early and advanced health screening in children suffering from sickle cell disease (SCD), after r ...

The second annual Beats for Blood: Sickle Cell Awareness Block Party returns on June 27th. “We all are connected. This isn’t ...

Kelsey Farris, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease immediately after her birth. Farris was transferred to Children’s Hospital New Orleans shortly after where she ...