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Adolescence is a transformative phase marked by physical, emotional and social changes. For teenagers with sickle cell disease, these years can be even more challenging due to the impact of chronic ...

Anyone living with sickle cell anemia is a warrior, Leslie Davis-Primo will tell you. “I’ve had three children, largely ...

A Long Island hospital has successfully treated Sebastien Beauzile, a 21-year-old from Laurelton, with the groundbreaking ...

Rare diseases - a medical condition so obscure that even your doctor has to Google. Despite their name, these diseases ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, became the first person in New York state to be made symptom-free of sickle cell disease after ...

Crizanlizumab (Adakveo) failed to outperform placebo in patients with sickle cell disease, the phase III STAND trial showed.

The Rutgers Cancer Institute recently became a designated gene therapy treatment center for sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia, joining a small group of medical centers that currently provide ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile suffered chronic pain ...

Twenty-one-year-old Sebastien Beauzile was all smiles as he was serenaded with “Happy Birthday” on what he calls his new birthday at Cohen Children’s Medical ...

Researchers studied the efficacy of hydroxyurea at reducing stroke risk in sickle cell anemia, the most common and severe ...

Brixton Hill and Streatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy with Brixton blood donation centre manager Rexford Osei-Bonsu at its opening ...