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Helen Obando awaiting surgery
at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer
and Blood Disorders Center last month.
Photograph:
Hilary Swift for The New York Times
At 16, She’s a Pioneer in the Fight to Cure
Sickle Cell Disease
Helen Obando is the youngest person ever to
get a gene therapy
that scientists hope will cure the disease,
which afflicts 100,000 Americans.
NYT
Jan. 11, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/
health/sickle-cell-disease-cure.html
sickle cell disease USA
Sickle cell disease
is an inherited disorder
that causes
some red blood cells
to bend into a crescent shape.
The misshapen,
inflexible cells
clog the blood vessels,
preventing blood
from circulating oxygen properly,
which can cause chronic pain,
organ failure and stroke.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/04/
561654823/sickle-cell-patients-endure-discrimination-poor-care-and-shortened-lives
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/23/
877543610/a-year-in-1st-patient-to-get-gene-editing-for-sickle-cell-disease-is-thriving
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/
health/sickle-cell-disease-cure.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/02/
782654754/effort-to-control-opioids-in-an-er-leaves-some-sickle-cell-patients-in-pain
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/
775332170/a-revolutionary-experiment-to-edit-human-genes
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/29/
744826505/sickle-cell-patient-reveals-why-she-is-volunteering-for-landmark-gene-editing-st
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/04/
561654823/sickle-cell-patients-endure-discrimination-poor-care-and-shortened-lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/21/
how-rap-revolutionary-prodigy-dead-at-42-overcame-the-pain-of-sickle-cell-anemia/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/
15ranney.html
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