From rural clinics to cutting-edge labs, AI and biosensing technologies are revolutionizing how sickle cell disease is detected and monitored. These tools promise faster, more accurate, and more ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Sickle cell disease was ...

Since it’s discovery in 1910, sickle cell disease has been considered a death sentence for those that inherited it. But over the years, dedicated pediatric programs and research initiatives have ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, including an estimated 2,000 in Missouri and about 700 Kansans. On Friday, two new treatments for the blood disorder were ...