Roseland Community Hospital cuts ribbon for new sickle cell clinic
Roseland Community Hospital on Monday celebrated the opening of a new sickle cell treatment clinic.
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Roseland Community Hospital on Monday celebrated the opening of a new sickle cell treatment clinic.
People with the disease often get sudden, debilitating bouts of pain.
One in every 365 Black Americans is diagnosed with sickle cell.
The order creates a new advisory council that will explore financing and fair access to new sickle cell treatments. Sickle cell is an inherited blood disorder that disproportionately affects people of color.
A new clinical trial took place where stem cells were removed from a patient's bone marrow and he was given chemotherapy to help kill the abnormal cells. Then, in a lab, gene editing technology improved the marrow cells.
Sickle cell disease affects approximately 100,000 people in the U.S., predominantly people of color.
The stream's Jamaica Ponder spoke with a woman who is living with the disease and also advocating by teaching others to advocate for themselves as well.
Ronisha Edwards Elliott is one of more than a hundred thousand Americans living with sickle cell disease.
