Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

Gabriella Ngang, of Farmington Hills, is one of three in Michigan to take part in a clinical trial of a new sickle cell ...

WESTLAND, Mich. — For D’Asia Jackson, every day is a guessing game over whether excruciating pain will upend her life. The 28-year-old medical assistant was born with sickle cell disease, an ...

The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed openness to restoring some programs he gutted, like the CDC's lead poisoning experts, though for now they have yet to be ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The latest round of CDC cuts could drastically impact those with sickle cell disease. Research teams could be eliminated and affect data collection of the blood ...

A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding ...

A Michigan woman living with sickle cell disease says her life may now be at risk after the CDC disbanded the team responsible for researching safe birth control for people with chronic conditions ...

“No single country can defeat sickle cell disease alone. It requires a united effort from governments, research institutions, ...

Sickle cell experts say the future of a critical data collection program is in flux after staff at the CDC's Division of Blood Disorders were placed on administrative leave without a clear future ...

Sickle cell experts say the future of a critical data collection program is in flux after staff at the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics were placed on administrative leave ...