Breaking News

3 weeks ago: Park Forest Rescheduled Main Street Nights After Weather Delays
3 weeks ago: DeLuca-led Crematory Regulation Plan Now Law
3 weeks ago: Comptroller Mendoza Permanently Closed Heights Crematory Through Consent Order
3 weeks ago: Scorching Heat Grips Region. Park Forest Opens Cooling Centers.
3 weeks ago: Community Picnic & Underground Railroad Program at Schubert Woods Pavilion

Patients, doctors, researchers, advocates, family members: Today's faces of sickle cell disease. (Source: National Institutes of Health)

Health and Fitness

NIH Launches Initiative to Accelerate Genetic Therapies to Cure Sickle Cell Disease

by eNews Park Forest on September 13, 2018

eNews Park Forest Author

More in Health and Fitness:

Scorching Heat Grips Region. Park Forest Opens Cooling Centers. June 29, 2026
On Hantavirus, Park Forest Officials Urge Caution May 18, 2026
Rep. Kelly Condemns FDA Approval of Flavored E-Cigarettes May 6, 2026

Sickle Cell Disease — Patients, doctors, researchers, advocates, family members: Today’s faces of sickle cell disease. (Source: National Institutes of Health)

Bethesda, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—September 13, 2018

Contact: NHLBI Engagement and Media Relations Branch

The National Institutes of Health announced the launch of a new initiative to help speed the development of cures for sickle cell disease, a group of inherited blood disorders affecting at least 100,000 people in the United States and 20 million worldwide. The Cure Sickle Cell Initiative…