some current SCD news here: For the latest news, visit this page that is updated weekly at www.scinfo.org/news.htm In the News Dr. Whitten, pioneer of sickle cell screening and champion of African-American medical students, dies August 14, 2008 Dr. Charles Whitten, M.D., associate dean emeritus of the
Wayne State University School of Medicine, died Aug. 13. He was 86. “...