Struggling with slow downloads or laggy gameplay? This simple Windows PC setting can instantly boost your Ethernet speed in under 60 seconds. By adjusting your network adapter's "Speed and Duplex" ...

Pain related to sickle cell disease (SCD) increases during menstruation, as do emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, for many women and girls—according to a new, nationwide study led ...

Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...

WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about how far their research has come.

Black History Month is poignant for one family after a man got a historic, innovative treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

A new breakthrough study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities could explain why patients with the ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as well as treatment guidelines. By Sam Roberts Dr. Angella D. Ferguson, a ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and bluebird bio have entered into an agreement with CMS to participate in a new Medicaid payment model for gene-based sickle cell anemia treatments, the agency announced ...

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy, Vertex Pharmaceuticals) for use within NHS Scotland to treat sickle cell disease (SCD) in patients aged 12 years ...

Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting friends. It was a contrast to how Cole, 18, spent part of the 2024 holiday ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review the latest published ...