Robert Zakar gives back to community
sickle cell anaemia is example of :: Article Creator People With Sickle Cell Deserve More Respect From Health Care Providers More than 50 years ago my parents took a big chance. They fell in love, got married and had three daughters, not knowing that they both carried the genetic trait for sickle cell disease. When I first started my career in emergency medicine 28 years ago, the main treatments for this disease were intravenous fluids, oxygen and a powerful narcotic used to manage the pain of sickle cell. With the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of two treatments for sickle cell that use the gene-editing technology CRISPR, people with this life-shortening condition have hope for relief from the pain and reduced life span it causes. But in the meantime, we must remember that the people with sickle cell, who are mostly Black, are often marginalized in many ways, including in health care. ...