1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 This month, a 12-year-old boy in Washington, D.C., became the first person in the world to undergo a grueling gene therapy treatment that could cure his sickle cell&amp;nbsp;disease. It is a game-changer for a disease whose history has been plagued by the racism baked into our health care system. &amp;nbsp; On&amp;nbsp;The Dose podcast, host Joel Bervell sits down with Dr. Cece Calhoun, a leading adolescent sickle cell specialist from Yale University. The two dive into what it means to be a young Black person in America with the disease; why it took nearly 100 years for us to get to this point; and how health inequities continue to pose life-and-death challenges for sickle cell patients. The Dose https://thedose.show <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/31344417/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/024b7f/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/172129822