The emotional toll of the “tainted blood era” is still vivid in the minds of healthcare professionals who felt helpless to stop the spread of epidemics among patients receiving treatment for blood disorders in Canada during the 1980s. Learning from these mistakes and developing support programs to help clinicians overcome…
The vast majority of people in the hemophilia community support the implementation of newborn screening for the bleeding disorder in the United Kingdom, a study reports. The study, “Newborn screening for haemophilia: The views of families and adults living with haemophilia in the UK,” was published in…
More than half of people with hemophilia in Japan fail to take part in sports or other physical activities at levels thought necessary to maintaining good health, a study reports. New strategies for education, support, and guidance are needed to promote better physical activity among this population, it recommended The…
The ratio between the blood clotting protein factor VIII (FVIII) and the von Willebrand factor (VWF) may be a reliable biomarker of recovery and relapse in patients with acquired hemophilia A (AHA), a study suggests. The research, “The factor VIII:C/VWF:Ag ratio as a useful tool to…
Treatment with Esperoct led to stabilization and/or improvement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with severe hemophilia A from all age groups, a study suggests. The study, “Health-related quality-of-life and treatment satisfaction of individuals with hemophilia A treated with turoctocog alfa pegol (N8-GP): a new recombinant…
BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s investigative gene therapy, called valoctocogene roxaparvovec, is capable of sustained control of bleeding rate requiring factor VIII infusions by at least 92% in adults with severe hemophilia A, three-year data from a Phase 1/2 trial show. Moreover, a model predicts that the…
A new five-year alliance between Bayer and the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) Humanitarian Aid Program will deliver training, education and treatments to healthcare professionals in more than 60 underserved countries. ”Three out of four people with bleeding disorders living in developing countries do not have access to…
RaDaR, the catchy new name for the U.S. government-run Rare Diseases Registry Program, aims to help patient advocacy groups with limited resources build their own disease registries. The site was developed by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a division of the National Institutes of…
BrightInsight has launched a web-based dosing calculator to help physicians select the correct loading and maintenance dose of the treatment Hemlibra according to the body measurements of their patients with hemophilia A. The dosing calculator, launched with the support of Hemlibra’s manufacturer, Roche, will support the…
U.S. doctors caring for people with hemophilia are more likely to make treatment decisions based on patient preferences than doctors in the U.K., who tend to be more influenced by their colleagues and government policies, according to a study comparing decision-making in both…
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