The FDA has granted orphan drug status to rilzabrutinib, an investigational therapy to prevent pain crises in sickle cell ...

An algorithm is helping to reduce the number of unnecessary hospital admissions for children with sickle cell.

Malaria remains one of the most common triggers of sickle cell crises in patients living in malaria-endemic regions, while sickle cell disease (SCD) also predisposes patients to frequent malaria ...

Adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease may face challenges in accessing physical therapy, a study reports.

Pneumococcal meningitis was associated with a case-fatality rate of almost 30% in children with sickle cell disease, a study ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

I’m a big advocate for giving myself time to recover after a sickle cell pain crisis. After my last crisis, however, I severely underestimated how long this process would take. It’s been two months ...

The study included 88 teens with sickle cell disease, who were followed at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio for at ...

More perceived social support from classmates is associated with less disease severity among children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia, the most common and often the most severe form of sickle ...