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:

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<h1>Listen: Why Don’t You Hear More About Sickle Cell Disease?</h1>
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<p>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.</p><p>Listen to the show at <a href="https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-05/why-you-dont-hear-much-about-sickle-cell-anymore">the1a.org.</a></p><p>Gold’s earlier reporting on sickle cell disease:</p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/sickle-cell-patients-suffer-discrimination-poor-care-and-shorter-lives/">Sickle Cell Patients Suffer Discrimination, Poor Care — And Shorter Lives</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/sickle-cell-patients-families-and-doctors-face-a-fight-for-everything/">Sickle Cell Patients, Families And Doctors Face A ‘Fight For Everything’</a></li></ul>		<p><em>		This story was produced by <a href="http://kffhealthnews.org/">Kaiser Health News</a>, an editorially independent program of the <a href="https://www.kff.org/">Kaiser Family Foundation</a>.		</em></p>		<em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><img src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&t=event&ec=Republish&tid=UA-72777370-1&z=1713482684925&cid=7c4e424b-12b1-42fe-bfd0-608c88429a44&ea=https%3A%2F%2Fcaliforniahealthline.org%2Fnews%2Flisten-why-dont-you-hear-more-about-sickle-cell-disease%2F&el=Listen%3A%20Why%20Don%27t%20You%20Hear%20More%20About%20Sickle%20Cell%20Disease%3F"/>

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