Sickle Cell Disease

Teonna Woolford has always wanted six kids. Why six? “I don’t know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn’t enough,” ... Read More

For more than 25 years, Dr. Yvette Miller has played an important role at the American Red Cross. As the Executive Medical Officer, she’s ... Read More

The United States’ lengthy medical history of malpractice and discrimination against Black women is a profound and widely-known truth in our ... Read More

Thousands of people in the United States have been diagnosed with the blood disorder, sickle cell disease. Making matters worse, the average ... Read More

Combating a chronic disease can be challenging, especially when we don’t have the tools to combat it. Unfortunately, sickle cell disease ... Read More

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a series of genetic blood abnormalities. Due to hemoglobin damage, your red blood cells (RBCs) lose their ... Read More

In this country, over 100,000 people have sickle cell disease – the great majority of whom are African American or of African descent. These ... Read More

After receiving a special accolade on October 2, a 4-year-old kid, Make-A-Wish, and the Chicago Police Department all made Chicago ... Read More

At age 7, Jori Smith had her first sickle cell pain crisis while in first grade. The pain was so bad she spent two weeks in the hospital and ... Read More

Thriving. That's fighting… Surviving is barely getting by. Sickle cell disease is not terminal, and many who have it may have fulfilling ... Read More

Siblings Kingsley and Vanessa were both born with sickle cell disease, the blood disorder that causes the breakdown of red blood cells and ... Read More