Listen: Why Don’t You Hear More About Sickle Cell Disease?

Jenny Gold, a Kaiser Health News senior correspondent, joined a panel of experts and patients to discuss sickle cell disease on “1A,” the national affairs radio show hosted by Joshua Johnson. The conversation on Feb. 5 tackled how discrimination may affect the level of attention sickle cell disease receives and why only two drugs exist to treat a problem that afflicts about 100,000 Americans.

Listen to the show at the1a.org.

Gold’s earlier reporting on sickle cell disease:

• Sickle Cell Patients Suffer Discrimination, Poor Care — And Shorter Lives
• Sickle Cell Patients, Families And Doctors Face A ‘Fight For Everything’

from Kaiser Health News http://ift.tt/2ENrLWz