(STAT News) – he sketch reverberated around the sickle cell community the next morning. To many advocates, patients, and doctors, it seemed to perpetuate falsehoods and stereotypes that had harmed sickle cell patients and held back progress for decades: that sickle cell was strictly a “Black disease”; that patients didn’t or couldn’t make responsible decisions about their own disease — and would, for example, choose a Santa toy over a curative therapy. (Read More)