Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...

Under the agreement, participating states will receive “discounts and rebates” from the drugmakers if the treatments don’t ...

A year ago, NBC News joined Wedam Minyila as he began undergoing a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease. The process has included having his stem cells removed for a revolutionary gene ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...

Sebastien Beauzile’s recently announced cure from sickle cell disease brings hope to thousands of mostly Black Americans who ...

After spending a year living within the walls of Boston Children's Hospital fighting sickle cell disease, Jayden Wilsey, 15, finally emerged on Sept. 15 — free from the pain associated with the ...

The FDA is reviewing a drug that could cure sickle cell anemia. Right now bone marrow or stem cell transplants are the only FDA-approved cures. The Food and Drug Administration says there’s an unmet ...

This video is no longer available. It is described as intense pain shooting throughout your body and has had a history of misdiagnosis and complications as patients are constantly traveling to ...

In sickle-cell disease, blood cells stuffed with hemoglobin are distorted into sickle shapes. The misshapen cells get stuck in blood vessels, causing strokes, organ damage and episodes of agonizing ...

NEW ORLEANS — A 22-year-old man is hoping to become the very first person in the state to be cured of his sickle cell disease with a new treatment. Daniel Cressy has dreams of becoming a pilot one day ...

Nikki Peterson, like approximately 100,000 other Americans, was born with sickle cell anemia. The 43-year-old lives in Upper Marlboro, Md., and ends up in the hospital about four times during what she ...

Then Dr. Alexis Thompson, a sickle-cell specialist at Northwestern University, told Williams that he could join a new study of gene therapy that might help. There were no guarantees, and there was a ...