The layoffs of federal health workers this month included elimination of the Center for Disease Control's Division of Blood Disorders. The loss of public health experts with decades of experience ...

Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was laid off this month, multiple officials tell CBS News, wiping out ...

Recent Trump administration cuts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has thrown the future of Michigan’s sickle cell disease registry into doubt. The Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, ...

What was supposed to be a five-year, $750,000 NIH grant to fund Dr. Charity Oyedeji's sickle cell research at Duke University – was terminated. “I thought it was possible,” Oyedeji said when asked if ...

A retrospective, qualitative cohort study concludes that patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) may have been negatively impacted by the 2016 CDC guidance. The 2016 CDC Guideline for Opioid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changes to guidelines reduced opioid dispensing rates and opioid dosages among patients with sickle cell disease ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects the blood and makes people more vulnerable to serious illness due to COVID-19. Getting a COVID-19 vaccination is particularly important to reduce this risk in people ...