Episode #5 - Living with Sickle Cell Disease

Published: Sept. 18, 2014, midnight

Original Air Date: SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 | Each day, more than 100,000 people suffer from a chronic, genetic blood disease that causes debilitating pain. When there’s no cure, where do you turn for help? On this episode of CTSI Discovery Radio, we’ll discuss new ways people living with Sickle Cell Disease are finding some relief right here in our own back yard through new clinical trials, a medical home for Sickle Cell patients, and new guidelines to help lower the risk of the disease causing a crisis in patients it affects.