"It feels like glass running through your veins." Faith Adjei-Sarpong lives with sickle cell disease and, like many others ...

Students at Erie High School partnered with the American Red Cross to raise awareness about sickle cell disease. With the ...

The American Red Cross says we are in the midst of a severe blood donation shortage. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the numbers for donations have never returned to normal. That’s a major concern of some ...

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders worldwide. Although its true prevalence is difficult to determine ...

My Blood, Your Blood, a new children's book by author and producer Laura Henry-Allain MBE and illustrated by Zenovia Grant, is full of heroes. Based on the real-life experience of 13-year-old Angel ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Red Cross mission to prevent and relieve human suffering continues even when there's not an emergency, from installing smoke alarms to collecting blood donations, and being in a ...

In recognition of Sickle Cell Awareness month, 7 Circle of Kindness is teaming up with the American Red Cross to host a Sickle Cell Blood Drive to support patients living with sickle cell disease. The ...

The first gene therapies approved to treat sickle cell disease in December 2023 are struggling on the market. But there are glimpses of forward momentum as Vertex and Genetix Bio provide updates.

Howard University opens the first comprehensive wellness center for sickle cell disease in Washington, D.C., offering personalized care and support.

On a hospital bed, surrounded by white walls, beneath fluorescent lights, and a hum of medical machinery, filmmaker and comedian Jared “J.” Snow lifted his phone and pressed record. Hooked to an array ...

Doctors who treat sickle cell disease (SCD) face burnout up to 60%, may be not due to a lack of resilience, but rather systemic healthcare factors inherent to SCD care.