A sickle cell gene therapy treatment has allowed a Long Island man to turn a chapter in his life, with doctors declaring him ...

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Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African and Caribbean backgrounds and can be life-threatening but campaigners ...

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The Long Island man had been coming to the hospital since he was 2 months old, now after 21 years he is cured. Read on to ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, has been cured of sickle cell anemia, according to his doctors at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.

Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he ...