A new newborn screening test can screen babies for sickle cell disease, SMA, and SCID at the same time, helping support earlier follow-up.

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While pain crises are a well-known complication of sickle cell, warriors may face many other issues, writes guest columnist.

Healthcare professionals and patient representatives from Cyprus, Greece, and Italy are joining forces in a regional initiative aimed at improving care for people with hemoglobinopathies, inherited ...

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Among children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and cerebral macrovasculopathy (CV), or disease affecting the brain’s large and medium-sized blood vessels, age at CV diagnosis, the severity of blood ...