Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Cases of ‘slapped cheek syndrome’ have been increasing in the U.S. Also known as parvovirus B9 and Fifth disease, this contagious virus causes red rashes ... people with sickle cell disease ...

Would the transplant work? What would it look like to have a successful stem cell transplant? Would it be a cure for my sickle cell disease? It was a decision I could think about making because my ...

“Like someone is jamming a knife in me,” he said. But for a brief moment on a recent December morning, Wedam, 19, who has sickle cell disease, allowed himself to believe what his doctors had ...

A "groundbreaking" £1.65 million treatment has been approved for use on the NHS, offering patients with severe sickle cell disease some hope of a cure. It is believed around 1,700 people could be ...

A sickle cell disease “cure” is to be offered to NHS patients for the first time. The £1.65 million gene therapy called exa-cel, also known under the brand name Casgevy, uses a Nobel Prize ...