Sickle cell disease is a severe, inherited blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean, Middle ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

For about 35 years before 2010, Tanzania had only 2 Hematologists, and were all retired. In 2007, Dr Rwezaula and three other ...

Robin Roberts took to the air on the latest iteration of Good Morning America to look back on an emotional milestone — her ...

"Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts is marking 12 years since she returned to the anchor desk after receiving a ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

These children rely on high community vaccination rates—also known as herd immunity—to stay safe. But when vaccine rates drop ...

Four-year-old donates stem cells to two-year-old sister battling leukemia in first-ever allogeneic bone marrow transplant in ...

CUTTACK: Doctors at the clinical hematology department of SCB medical college and hospital here have successfully conducted ...

An SCD patient in Bahrain received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy, marking the first time the treatment has been given outside the U.S.

A team of Bahraini specialists has successfully treated a patient with sickle cell disease using the revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing technology, making Bahrain the first country outside the United ...

HRH Prince Salman highlighted the Kingdom’s medical milestone in successfully completing the treatment of the world’s first sickle cell disease patient outside the US with Casgevy (exagamglogene ...