A young man from Laurelton is the first New Yorker with sickle cell disease to receive Lyfgenia, a life-changing gene therapy treatment that has wiped away the debilitating illness, The Post first

Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.

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. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical Center For 21 years,