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

He looks and acts like a typical teenager, but at 17, Desmond Pullen has had more close calls than most people can claim in a lifetime agonizing headaches, collapsed lungs, several strokes and ...

A Long Island hospital said it administered life-changing Lyfgenia gene therapy treatment and successfully wiped away sickle ...

"What it did for me was when I was standing there and I was looking, I was just like— I can't believe this far from when I first started with my sickle cell journey ... is chronic pain. Some medicines ...

Period-driven inflammation could influence the risk of pain events among women with sickle cell disease. Levels of C-reactive ...

For the first time in 20 years, an innovative new treatment for sickle cell ... Patients with sickle cell suffer from severe pain during a ‘sickle cell crisis’ which can occur multiple times ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease ... Aaron’s family recalls his chronic pain episodes started at age 2 ...

MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first ...

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease ... freedom from a pain crisis for at least 12 months after treatment.