Sickle Cell Patients Endure Discrimination, Poor Care And Shortened Lives

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"Patients and experts alike say it's no surprise then that while life expectancy for almost every major malady is improving, patients with sickle cell disease can expect to die younger than they did more than 20 years ago. In 1994, life expectancy for sickle cell patients was 42 for men and 48 for women. A 2013 study found that life expectancy had dipped to 38 for men and 42 for women in 2005.
Sickle cell disease is "a microcosm of how issues of race, ethnicity and identity c...
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Sickle Cell Patients Endure Discrimination, Poor Care And Shortened Lives
About 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, and most of them are African-American. While there is effective care for the disease, it's…
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