Halloween is one of my daughter’s favorite holidays. She looks forward to creative costumes and makes drawings of pumpkins, ghosts, and bats. Here in the Philippines, people have different attitudes toward the occasion, but that hasn’t dampened her enthusiasm. As I write this, we have a Halloween display in our…
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By educating and empowering patients and their families, clinicians can help improve access to accurate diagnoses and care for women and girls affected by hemophilia. That’s the argument made by a pair of doctors in Belgium in a paper titled, “How I Identify and Diagnose Carriers of Hemophilia…
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Every new hematologist asks the same question: “Who else in your family has it?” For most of my life, the answer was nobody. Nobody with a diagnosis, anyway. I was diagnosed with hemophilia B and von Willebrand disease (VWD) in 1975, at age 10, and I was…
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Treatment disruptions during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic were a substantial driver of psychological distress for people with hemophilia in China, causing more stress than the virus itself, a study found. The researchers said the findings underscore the importance of reliable access to treatments, especially self-administered ones, to…
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Long before our sons could advocate for themselves, my wife, Cazandra, and I spoke on their behalf. At the beginning of every school year, we met with the principal, school nurse, social worker, faculty, and other staff members who would work with them. We explained concerns related to their…
Becoming educated and informed about hemophilia is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
It helps to know others have been where you are now. Here’s a collection of our columnists’ words of wisdom to help you along on your hemophilia journey.
There is no cure for hemophilia yet, but here you can find more information about current therapeutic approaches, as well as experimental treatments that are in the pipeline.
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