A 21-year-old man has become the first person in New York—and one of the first in the world—to be cured of sickle cell anemia ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

The Rutgers Cancer Institute recently became a designated gene therapy treatment center for sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia, joining a small group of medical centers that currently provide ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile suffered chronic pain ...

Sickle cell anemia, first described in 1910, primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent.

This month, 21-year-old Sebastien Beauzile became the first man in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia, a genetic blood disorder, thanks to a new form of gene therapy. “ ...