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Bone Pain and Sickle Cell Disease
In this episode Dr. Scott and Dr. Botchwey discuss bone pain and Sickle Cell Disease. The conversation mainly centered around understanding how osteonecrosis occurs and how researches are learning that more treatment options exist.
Today’s show is brought to you by the Essential RX segment with Dr. Lametra Scott.
Her guest today is Dr. Edward Botchway. He is an Associate Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.

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