Beam Therapeutics has acknowledged the death of a patient in a Phase I/II trial assessing the base editing therapy candidate BEAM-101—a death the company said was likely caused by the preconditioning ...

Because SCD can impair blood and oxygen delivery to any part of the body, it can cause a wide range of complications, including anemia, blood clots, and stroke. It can also damage organs, such as the ...

Pfizer will voluntarily pull its sickle cell disease (SCD) drug Oxbryta from all markets worldwide, a major blow to a $5.4 billion acquisition the New York pharma made two years ago. Pfizer will stop ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers investigated the risk of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) in cognitively normal adults for developing mild cognitive ...

Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is a broad term that can describe any sudden, unexpected death from natural causes. It is not a formal condition or diagnosis and does not necessarily indicate a specific ...

People with the inherited disease can expect to live 52.6 years following birth, the report shows. About 100,000 people in the United States are believed to suffer from SCD, a diagnosis that brings ...

It is my pleasure to present to you the World Bank Group’s first Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for India. The SCD is an analytical exercise we conduct in all countries. It articulates, from the ...

What Happens in Splenetic Sequestration? Sickle cell disease affects how children's bodies make hemoglobin. It’s an important part of red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the rest of the body. These ...

Sickle cell anemia, or sickle cell disease (SCD), is a genetic disease of the red blood cells (RBCs). Normally, RBCs are shaped like discs, which gives them the flexibility to travel through even the ...

Sickle cell disease is one of the most common inherited blood disorders worldwide, with a particularly heavy burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, hundreds of thousands of infants are born with ...