Despite available drug, sickle cell suffering continues

• Story Highlights
• Experts: Only a tiny fraction of sickle cell patients use available drug
  
• Ignorance of prescribing guidelines, fear of side effects are key factors
  
• Disease that afflicts up to 100,000 Americans, most of them black
  
• Causes regular pain attacks so severe as to require long hospitalizations
  
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