For the first time, two U.S. teenagers with sickle cell disease will be able to go swimming on their spring break, thanks to ...

Michelle Harlan, who has sickle beta thalassemia, wants to help others by getting a doctoral degree in clinical psychology.

The University of Tennessee is hosting a federally funded conference to educate U.S. primary care doctors about SCD to ...

Wilson processes the physical and emotional toll of his most recent sickle cell crisis, which caused severe pain.

Michelle Harlan is a second-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at George Mason University. She earned her B.A. in art ...

As I look back on my two-year journey as a sickle cell disease columnist for Bionews, the parent company of this website, I’m struck by how much I’ve grown and evolved. In fact, I’m extremely proud.

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African descent, which may be potential treatment targets for sickle cell disease (SCD) ...