He looks and acts like a typical teenager, but at 17, Desmond Pullen has had more close calls than most people can claim in a lifetime agonizing headaches, collapsed lungs, several strokes and ...

Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood disorders that affect a person’s levels of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen. Sickle cell anemia causes a ...

Camp Silver Moon at Camp Crosley in North Webster is giving kids with Sickle Cell Disease a fun-filled summer camp experience. Jordan Ronnie has attended the camp and stopped by the FOX59 studio ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.