A new report is calling on the National Institutes of Health to designate sickle cell disease a health disparity to help accelerate research on the...
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Shavonn Burgess was ecstatic to welcome her new bundle of joy, Kennedy, to the family after her birth in July, 2016. Unfortunately, a postcard in...
About 100,000 people in the United States live with sickle cell disease—most of them African American. But every baby born here is tested for sickle...
Save the date: The ProActive Health 4th Black Health Matters Summit is coming Saturday, March 14, 2020. We believe when people are empowered patients who...
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia Working to Secure Quality Care for Those with SCD
The fight to research, illuminate, and one day eliminate sickle cell disease continues, and one its toughest fighters is receiving much needed help to press...
Charlotte Curtis, Launches Podcast for People with SCD Sickle Cycle, a Sickle Cell Disease advocacy and awareness organization, has released a third installment of The...
In 2003, Jeffrey Zuttah was captain of his state championship football team and an academic whiz kid who dreamed of playing college football. An All-American,...
September is not just “back-to-school” month; it’s National Sickle Cell Awareness Month—a month selected to call attention to a life-long illness affecting around 100,000 Americans,...