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Hi, my name is Mark, I'm 21 years old and I'm from London. I'm currently studying at Cardiff

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University. Yeah, it's pretty much most about me, like not much else really currently.

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But yeah, basically one of the current innovations I've recently heard about

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that I thought was quite interesting was current research into this drug

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for sickle cell, sickle cell anemia. Basically, this drug is like injected into veins and

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yeah, it's the first drug, well first treatment to have been developed for sickle cell in about

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20 years, which obviously is quite a big thing, like 20 years is quite a long time.

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And for there not to have been any new treatments for sickle cell in that time, it's quite a

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surprise. But with that, with this new treatment, it's quite a big thing because

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it decreases from the tests that have gone, that have occurred, it's seen to have decreased

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sickle cell crisis from about over three times a year per patient to about 1.2, 1.6, which

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it may not sound like a drastic improvement, but when you're, when you have to go into hospital

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quite a lot as a result of sickle cell and you can be hospitalized, it can be quite draining,

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it takes a lot of your time going in. So to go from over three a year to about one-ish is,

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it'd be, it'd make quite a difference, especially to, especially when there hasn't been much

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treatment options for people with sickle cell. But yeah, that's the innovation that I saw and

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I found quite interesting, especially because my aunt as well, she suffered from sickle cell

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and that's the reason she passed away. But yeah, seeing stuff like that going across and like

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coming through, it's quite nice to see basically.