Life Without Limits: how a research-based treatment cured Leon of sickle cell disease

Leon and his twin sister, Leigh-Marie, were born in the summer of 2021. When the babies were only about a week old, their parents, Stacy and Leon Sr., received an alarming call from UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The standard newborn screening test administered to all babies after birth revealed that Leon had sickle cell […]