Oral hygiene among children and adults with severe hemophilia is poorer than in healthy controls, a single-center study suggests. The study, “Oral hygiene and dentition status in children and adults with hemophilia: A case–control study,” was published in the journal Special Care Dentistry. Dental care is a…
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In the 1970s and ’80s, treating my von Willebrand disease and hemophilia B often involved a regimen that included fresh frozen plasma, platelets, and cryoprecipitate. Cryoprecipitate, a blood component derived from frozen plasma, contains vital clotting factors such as fibrinogen, factor VIII, von Willebrand factor, and factor…
The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF), through its Nursing Working Group (NWG), has released new guidelines to help hemophilia A patients self-administer Hemlibra (emicizumab). In its announcement, the foundation also highlighted the issuance of new guidelines for nurses to ensure safe and effective administration of standard into-the-vein…
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Penn Researchers Coax Plants to Produce Human Clotting Factor for Hemophilia, Other Foreign Proteins
A research team from the departments of biochemistry and pathology at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine has found a successful technique using genetic engineering to coax lettuce and tobacco plants to produce foreign proteins in their leaves. The applications include producing the human clotting factor to make…
Hemophilia is a blood disorder that’s usually genetically inherited from parents. People born with hemophilia have little or no clotting factor – a protein needed for normal blood clotting. Hemophilia can also be acquired, meaning patients don’t inherit the disease from their parents but instead develop it at some point during…
Last updated May 29, 2024, by Lindsey Shapiro, PhD Fact-checked by Joana Carvalho, PhD What is Kogenate FS for hemophilia? Kogenate (octocog alfa) was an approved treatment used to prevent bleeding episodes, including those occurring during surgery, in people with hemophilia A that has now…
Last week, I met a new local hematologist. He is not my main hemophilia doctor, but with my hemophilia treatment center eight hours away, it helps to have a local connection. He is a hematologist/oncologist who specializes in cancer treatment and knows very little about hemophilia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRqJWVQRio This video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes a look at hemophilia and explains what the blood disorder means for those who suffer from it. MORE: Three tips for coping with a hemophilia diagnosis. Hemophilia patients and caregivers share how hemophilia affects their everyday lives…
People with hemophilia are living longer, but Black males still are more likely to die from the disease, and at a younger age, compared with white people, a U.S. study finds. More research is needed to understand the reason for this difference and to improve care and survival rates…