Though he doesn't remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was in and out of the hospital with pain episodes, not knowing why.

Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, on Monday sais that he will unveil a state-of-the-art clinic dedicated to providing free and comprehensive care for patients living with sickle cell disease. The ...

SAN DIEGO — Pfizer’s abrupt withdrawal of its sickle cell drug Oxybryta over safety concerns was called “tone deaf” during a panel discussion among sickle cell experts Saturday at STAT@ASH ...

Two FDA-approved gene therapies, Lyfgenia and Casgevy, will be offered through an outcomes-based Medicaid model launching in January 2025. The initiative ties payments to treatment effectiveness ...

Opens in a new tab or window Vertex Pharmaceuticals and bluebird bio have entered into an agreement with CMS to participate in a new Medicaid payment model for gene-based sickle cell anemia ...

Image Source Courtesy of the Gracheva Lab In my hands is a squirrel-sicle, or close to it. I’m standing in a walk-in fridge, bathed in red light, cradling a rigid, furry body nearly as cold as ice.

You won’t have to travel to Germany this holiday season to experience a smaller version of a traditional Christkindlmarket. Now in its third year, the outdoor ...

Instead of “let’s do shots”, they are buying cardboard cups and filling them up with frozen yoghurt on a Saturday night. Carla, a Millennial Aussie who runs the social media account Go Woke ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries. By Holland Cotter Sublime paintings from Siena, the birth of Impressionism and ...

December 30, 2024 • NPR's member and affiliate station photographers share memorable moments from throughout 2024. December 26, 2024 • Among the vast destruction of buildings in Gaza, some ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Meilan Solly Robert Smithson ...