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Treating SCD before it hurts
Healthy Conversations
English - October 20, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes - 45.7 MBHealth & Fitness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Daniel sits down with Dr. Patrick Hines, the founder and CEO at Functional Fluidics and the leading Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he set up a transformational study on defining the health of red blood cells — membrane stability, abnormalities, stickiness, and more. Dr. Hines also introduces us to exciting new therapies — recently approved — and the importance of being proactive with SCD.