Four years ago, Victoria Gray was lying in a hospital bed, exhausted by a lifetime with sickle cell disease and recovering from a grueling experimental treatment she hoped would save her.

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium was ...

Gina Kolata has been reporting on sickle cell disease since 2018, documenting patient experiences and the science that may lead to cures. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, an advisory committee to the Food and ...