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 ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...

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.

“Not all patients with sickle cell are good candidates for a bone marrow transplant. If you can manage the condition well without frequent crises, you likely won’t need one. “The transplant is best ...

This achievement follows Bahrain’s landmark decision on 2 December 2023 to become the second country globally and the first ...