Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye shares a list of things that everyone should know and understand about sickle cell disease.
More than 500,000 babies were tested for sickle cell disease in Catalonia’s newborn screening program, with 160 cases ...
The European Commission has granted orphan drug status to mitapivat, an oral investigational therapy for sickle cell disease.
The vast majority of people with sickle cell disease (SCD) who received the now-approved gene therapy Lyfgenia (lovotibeglogene autotemcel) in clinical trials have been free from vaso-occlusive events ...
Most people with sickle cell disease (SCD) who received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) in clinical trials have been free from vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) over several ...
I’ve previously written about the difficulties I’ve sometimes faced when trying to get my prescriptions filled to treat sickle cell disease. In a stroke of luck about a year ago, I found a pharmacy ...
It’s almost winter again here in the U.K., and every year I’m shocked by the cold weather and its impact on my body. Winter has always been one of my greatest adversaries, and as the seasons shift, ...
Etavopivat, Novo Nordisk’s investigational oral therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), may reduce the incidence of vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) and increase hemoglobin levels. That’s according to data ...
Nearly all the patients with severe sickle cell disease (SCD) who were treated with renizgamglogene autogedtemcel (reni-cel) remained free of vaso-occlusive events (VOEs) for up to two years, new data ...