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openly speak about their battle with sickle cell disease. In the years since, celebrities have become untapped agents of positive change because they have influence on the knowledge we retain ...
Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR,  a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by ...
For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients ...
"I want people with sickle cell to feel safe and to feel like they have help, and to feel like they have support. I only recently got the courage to speak up about it and a lot of people can't ...
As it is quickly understood that the powers that connect the fledgling superheroes are born from a connection to sickle cell disease, Supacell serves as a reminder that while entertainment serves ...
When Patricia McGill was 13 and learning that she had inherited sickle cell disease, she did not think she would reach 30. But now she and her family are celebrating McGill’s 80th year.
It actually was the day he began a new groundbreaking treatment that cured him of sickle cell anemia. In his own words, “It’s really like a new birthday. I feel like a new man.” But it wasn ...
Are you a sickle cell warrior or do you know someone with sickle cell disease? At Social Security, we’re committed to supporting sickle cell warriors and the people who care for them.
This month, 21-year-old Sebastien Beauzile became the first man in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia, a genetic blood disorder, thanks to a new form of gene therapy. “ ...
He had come to Florida to surprise his sister for her birthday. But instead, he had become so weak from sickle cell anemia that he had to be carried into a local hospital, then sent to another ...
A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...