People with sickle cell disease are immunocompromised, which means they have an increased risk of infection. For this reason, immunizations are an important part of complete sickle cell care. This ...

Sickle cell disease experts are worried that recent staffing changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will impact a program that collects data about the genetic disease and how ...

Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet described ...

Health experts, government officials and patient right advocates from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania gathered in Dar es Salaam this week to assess progress and chart the way forward to improving ...

Currently, diagnosing SCD requires expensive tools like high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), which limits early detection in large populations.

A marker linked to inflammation -- C-reactive protein -- appears to be elevated in the first part of the menstrual cycle in females with sickle cell disease and may contribute to painful vaso ...

The CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders ran the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, which assessed the long-term trends of treatment and access to health care for people living with sickle cell ...

Filipino-American outside hitter Brooke Van Sickle has not won a major league championship even during her time with Oregon and Hawaii University in the US-NCAA. After leading Petro Gazz to a Game One ...