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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

Stephanie Douglas joined the WJZ family in August 2025 as a morning reporter. Stephanie is no stranger to Baltimore. She is a Maryland native who's deeply passionate about journalism and knows how to ...

Pfizer’s sickle cell disease (SCD) drug has flunked a key phase 3 test, the latest blow to the pharma’s $5.4 billion acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics. Pfizer acquired the P-selectin inhibitor, ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - In the latest setback for Pfizer's (PFE.N), opens new tab sickle cell anemia treatments, experimental drug inclacumab failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage trial for patients ...

This story is the first in an occasional series following Louisiana’s first patients to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease. On the third floor of Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell disease, a blood disorder that affects roughly 100,000 people in the U.S.

What was supposed to be a five-year, $750,000 NIH grant to fund Dr. Charity Oyedeji's sickle cell research at Duke University – was terminated. “I thought it was possible,” Oyedeji said when asked if ...

A doctor says she’s scrambling to figure out how she’ll continue her work helping sickle cell disease patients after the National Institutes of Health cancelled her $750,000 research grant, citing ...

Reeves is an associate professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan and the principal investigator of the Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection program. In December 2023, a ...