Sickle cell patients, families and doctors face a 'fight for everything' - PBS NewsHour

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PBS NewsHourSickle cell patients, families and doctors face a 'fight for everything'PBS NewsHourAbout 3 in 4 sickle cell patients who could benefit from hydroxyurea are not being treated with it, according to a study published in 2015 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “We should be prescribing it to everybody who's eligible, and ...