On Monday, a community book reading for all-ages about sickle cell disease will take place at Garfield Park at 6 p.m. in ...

Electrical Trades Union WA secretary Adam Woodage. Michael Philipps. High voltage and power workers negotiating a separate agreement with the company will also undertake a 12-hour ...

Through groundbreaking gene therapy, a patient in Louisiana has become the first person to ever be functionally cured of sickle cell anemia in the state. Daniel Cressy, 23, received curative gene ...

Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these personalized treatments faster, cheaper, and available to far more patients.

Daniel Cressy has suffered from symptoms of the painful genetic condition since birth Toria Sheffield is a Writer-Reporter on the Weekends News Team at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2024. Governor ...

For most of his life, Daniel Cressy had two realities shaping his future. One was his dream of becoming a commercial pilot. The other was sickle cell disease, a condition that repeatedly put obstacles ...

Local doctors are celebrating a patient and his medical milestone as a Metairie man is now the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - A New Orleans man became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy. Daniel Cressy, 23, underwent the procedure ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A 23-year-old New Orleans man became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy. Daniel Cressy underwent the procedure at ...

Gene therapy has given sickle cell disease what medicine has long promised but rarely delivered: the possibility of a cure. Yet the slow uptake of Casgevy and Lyfgenia shows that even dazzling science ...

One of Audrey Patricia Smith's early defining memories of sickle cell disease was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1959, when she was 12 years old and visiting the ocean with family friends. Before ...

STOCKHOLM — The treatment landscape for sickle cell disease (SCD) is evolving rapidly, with new drugs and gene-based therapies offering a realistic prospect of cure. For most patients, however, ...