The Latest Breaking News from Sickle Cell Disease

Previously, The Independent revealed that only half of healthcare professionals feel they have sufficient tools to manage the long-term damage that sickle cell disease brings.

Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the…

There soon may be a new cure for sickle cell disease that attacks the disorder at its genetic source

The pain from a heart attack is so bad that – if you can imagine – it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of pain begins before their first birthday and…

Sickle cell disease affects thousands of people in the UK – here’s what you need to know

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of inherited blood disorders with symptoms like anaemia and blocked blood vessels. About 80% of the world’s sickle cell disease cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of access to comprehensive healthcare in the region adds to the burden of the disease.

The costs required to reduce the risk of sickle cell disease are beyond the reach of most individuals in India and sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease is most prevalent, says a new Commission published in The Lancet Haematology journal.

Sickle Eye Project to assess how disease causes visual loss through damage to blood vessels

Democratic State Representative Jarvis Johnson called the governor's veto of the Sickle Cell bill "petty, bullshit politics."