Audio slide show featuring Dr. James Eckman, Director of the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Memorial Hospital.

• The Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center is the world's first 24-hour comprehensive primary care clinic for patients with sickle cell syndromes.
• Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells.
• Complications of sickle cell disease include chronic pain and organ failure.
• More than 70,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease according to the Centers for Disease Control.
• One in 500 African Americans has sickle cell disease.
• One in 12 African Americans has the sickle cell trait.