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A long-awaited treatment for sickle cell anemia is highlighted in this week’s Free Press.
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A long-awaited treatment for sickle cell anemia is highlighted in this week’s Free Press.
Two breakthrough gene therapies can now be used to treat and possibly cure sickle cell anemia, the genetic blood disorder that afflicts 100,000 mostly Black Americans and 20 million people worldwide. But the announcement from the Food and Drug Administration of approval of the treatments — the first use of medicines to address an inherited disease — drew cheers and caution flags from those in the field.
/PRNewswire/ --The Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research (FSCDR), the US's first outpatient center exclusively dedicated to the treatment of and...