So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell disease, a blood disorder that affects roughly 100,000 people in the U.S.

CMS is brokering outcomes-based agreements on behalf of Medicaid programs. Thirty-three states, along with Washington, D.C., ...

Sickle cell disease can lead to a severe complication known as acute chest syndrome (ACS), but the underlying mechanisms are ...

A sickle cell disease center is leading the way in treatment with a new, innovative approach to caring for those with the illness. Dr. Sharl Azar, Medical Director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell ...

Families in Philadelphia with sickle cell disease are hopeful and advocate for a cure 02:14. Three-year-old Kaliph Eubanks is full of happy energy playing at the park in the Germantown section of ...

Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with ...