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Sickle Cell Disease Has Long Been Misunderstood. These Firefighters Want to Change That.
The history of sickle cell disease goes back about 4,000 years to when humans began harvesting rice, according to Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, an MD in Hematology-Oncology at Yale New Haven Children’s hospital....
Sickle cell disease has long been misunderstood. These firefighters want to change that. New Haven Fire Department Lt. Samod Rankins, James Rawlings, president and CEO of Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Connecticut, and retired New Haven Fire Department Capt. Gary Tinney.
Source: New Haven Register