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Black people are susceptible to sickle cell anaemia because of genetics. According to studies, the sickle cell gene evolved in the malaria belt region of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Since ...

When singer and actress Jordin Sparks was 16 years old, her life was changing, and not in the ordinary way it does for teenage girls. At that age, she auditioned for American Idol‘s sixth season, ...

“It can hit you out of nowhere,” she tells TODAY.com.

CONYERS, Ga. — A 7-year-old boy in Conyers, Georgia, who suffered from a painful disease his whole life is thanking his sister for curing him. Kyle James was diagnosed with sickle cell disease just ...

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For 10-year-old Kendall Richmond, every day has been a battle. Since she started experiencing the pain of sickle cell disease at age 2, her life has been punctuated by hospital stays, excruciating ...

That her parents named her Vida — Spanish for "life" — is no coincidence. She's the reason 7-year-old Alessia is playing at home — instead of lying in a hospital bed, fighting the painful and ...

New York City is about 1,000 miles away from Minneapolis, but for Avianah Drakeford, the special trip was the culmination of a much longer journey. "What it did for me was when I was standing there ...