Anyone can be born with Sickle Cell disease, but it is most common among people from a black Caribbean or black African background. Johnny Nyaaba is a nurse at the Cumberland Infirmary and is now ...

Anemia poses a significant public health challenge, primarily impacting the health of young children, pregnant and postpartum women, as well as menstruating adolescent girls and adult women. On a ...

Red blood cells grown in a laboratory have been transfused in to a person in a world first clinical trial. Scientists say that if proved safe and effective, manufactured blood cells could ...

Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Mice with a human sickle-cell anemia disease trait have been treated successfully in a process that begins by directly reprogramming their own cells to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the ...

Misshapen red blood cells could be used as a tool to kill cancer cells in mice, research in the journal Plos One shows. Sickle-shaped cells can stick together in blood vessels surrounding tumours in ...