Creating personalized hemophilia B care is an important part of hemophilia B management.Your healthcare team can set up a treatment plan based on your specific needs and the severity of your symptoms.
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PEGylation is one of the molecular technologies that has been used to create extended half-life replacement therapies for hemophilia. These longer-lasting therapies don’t need to be administered as often, reducing the treatment burden for patients.
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What About Hemophilia?
Mr. Man started coughing on Friday and grew much worse by Saturday. My boy struggled with flu-like symptoms all weekend. We thought that by giving him allergy meds and cough suppressants, he would recover and be well for school on Monday. No such luck. The medicines wouldn’t work,…
My oldest son, Julian, was 10 years old, when we first saw the musical “Wicked” onstage. Our family’s love for live theater is a bond we cherish. As we watched and listened, I heard a lyric that made me shudder: “Unlimited. My future…
SCT800, a replacement therapy containing a man-made form of clotting factor VIII (FVIII), appears to be safe and effective at treating and preventing bleeds in adolescents and adults with severe hemophilia A, a study has found. The study, “Pharmacokinetic, efficacy and safety evaluation of B-domain-deleted…
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Explaining Hemophilia A and B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_YMGmHqIW4 This video from Claire Blatt shares a lecture about the effects of two blood-clotting disorders: hemophilia A and hemophilia B. MORE: A study shows that NovoSeven counters bleeding in children with hemophilia Though the lecture is aimed at nurses, it’s helpful for anyone looking to learn about these…
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How Kids Can Explain Hemophilia to Their Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3f8elOVOrU This children’s video from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on how to tell your friends that you have hemophilia. MORE: How kids can play safe with hemophilia Billy, a young boy with hemophilia, answers some of the questions that his friends ask about the disease. He…
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How Kids Can Explain Hemophilia to Their Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3f8elOVOrU This children’s video from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on how to tell your friends that you have hemophilia. MORE: How kids can play safe with hemophilia Billy, a young boy with hemophilia, answers some of the questions that his friends ask about the disease. He…
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How Kids Can Explain Hemophilia to Their Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3f8elOVOrU This children’s video from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on how to tell your friends that you have hemophilia. MORE: How kids can play safe with hemophilia Billy, a young boy with hemophilia, answers some of the questions that his friends ask about the disease. He…
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Hemophilia CHOICE Project Survey
The Hemophilia Foundation of American (HFA) has teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create a survey for hemophilia and bleeding disorder patients who don’t currently receive care from a government-funded hemophilia treatment center (HTC). MORE:Â Why shared data is important for furthering hemophilia research…