Docs Launch Network to Treat Sickle Cell »
Posted by: GrainOfSand 11 months, 1 week agoA network of health care professionals and researchers from Missouri, Kansas and more than 30 other states is working to do something doctors and other advocates have been trying to do for years: improve the sickle cell landscape so it better addresses the needs of adult patients.
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GrainOfSand11 months, 1 week ago
"Sickle cell specialist Dr. Kathryn Hassell of Denver, who formed the network, said the first phase of the practices will be available in the next few months.
"Everybody who works with sickle cell recognizes it's time to start paying attention to the adults," said Hassell, director of the Colorado Sickle Cell Treatment and Research Center. "We're so good at raising the children and keeping them healthier into adulthood. It's time to do that for the adults.'"
"The practices will cover such issues as how to better manage pain for adults who have sickle cell pain crises, and whether regular blood transfusions can improve conditions of adult patients like they do children."
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