I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

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.

For people with sickle cell anemia, these cells can cause severe episodes of pain, called crises. “He’s vibrant, resilient and he has his own personality,” Gordon-Edwards said. “If you weren’t told ...

Sebastien Beauzile became the first person in NY to be made symptom-free after undergoing a new type of gene therapy.

showing how the Apple Watch could help predict pain in people with Sickle Cell disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of ...