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FDA's sickle cell therapy approval help Black Minnesotans dream of 'life without any restrictions'

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Roughly 100,000 Americans, most of whom are Black, are living with sickle cell disease. The recent Food and Drug Administration approval of two new gene therapies brings the promise of a cure.

Kyra Miles of Minnesota Public Radio shares how these therapies are reverberating in the sickle cell community.

This segment aired on April 18, 2024.

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