#201 Sickle Cell Disease with Lifting the Veil

DNA Today: A Genetics Podcast

It’s Sickle Cell Awareness month, so we are sharing this episode of Lifting the Veil

podcast where Beveraly Mills and Elaine Buck interview our host, Kira Dineen, about the condition!

On Lifting the Veil, Beverly and Elaine cover, and uncover, the truth about African-American history. Misconceptions, lies, skewed facts, and untruths about the African-American narrative get straightened out here, once and for all.

On This Episode We Discuss:

Health disparities specifically in black community

Birth mortality rates of black people

Funding/support for sickle cell disease research compared to other disease like cystic fibrosis

Henrietta Lacks’s story and its impact on science, medicine, and her family

Treatments for sickle cell including bone marrow transplant and CRISPR clinical trials

You can listen to the episode here, and check out their other episodes on New Pod City. If you’re interested, you can read the article mentioned throughout the interview, “Comparison of US Federal and Foundation Funding of Research for Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis and Factors Associated With Research Productivity,” here!

Keep up with Beverly Mills and Elaine Buck on LinkedIn, and follow the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum on Twitter, Beverly and Elaine are the co-founders!

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