A specialist from Oman, located at the crossroads of Africa and Asia, explains that his nation serves as a microcosm when it ...

A Pfizer drug designed to address a severe problem associated with sickle cell disease failed to beat a placebo in a Phase 3 clinical trial. It’s the latest setback for Pfizer in this inherited blood ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nobel Prize-winning technology offers a potential cure for sickle cell disease. Simply put, doctors can edit a patient’s genes to alter blood cells. But this gene editing ...

Since he was very young, Khaled Alsheebani has known the painful, exhausting suffering of sickle cell disease. Despite doctors telling him and his family that he would simply have to learn to live ...

Most individuals living with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department with a pain crisis, known as vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), were not triaged appropriately according to ...

A young man with sickle cell disease (SCD) arrives at a New York City emergency department gripped by excruciating pain, the most common complication of SCD. He is seen—but not believed. Effective ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - In the latest setback for Pfizer's (PFE.N), opens new tab sickle cell anemia treatments, experimental drug inclacumab failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage trial for patients ...

Stephanie Douglas joined the WJZ family in August 2025 as a morning reporter. Stephanie is no stranger to Baltimore. She is a Maryland native who's deeply passionate about journalism and knows how to ...