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Navigating the Pandemic with a Bleeding Disorder
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Learn how three young adults with bleeding disorders are living life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more hemaware.org
Women Fighting for Change
Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Six women share their own stories of overcoming challenges and offer their best advice in hopes of educating, inspiring and uplifting other…
Marijuana and CBD for Chronic Pain: What You Need to Know
Health and Well Being, Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Learn about the potential benefits and risks, along with what to look out for when evaluating products. Read more hemaware.org
Video: Dr. Jill Johnsen on My Life, Our Future Research Repository
Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
In this video, Dr. Jill Johnsen of the University of Washington discusses how the My Life, Our Future Research Repository is helping her…
Helpful Tools to Keep Track of Your Hemophilia Treatments
Living with a Bleeding Disorder
These electronic options can help make record-keeping easier for people with bleeding disorders. Read more. Source: National Hemophilia Foundation, HEMAWARExpress
Why Compliance Matters When You Have a Bleeding Disorder
Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Adhering to your treatment schedule is associated with fewer bleeding events and a reduction in joint disease. Here is how to stay…
Chronic Pain, CAM and YOU
Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
by Laurie Kelley Pain is highly personal. No two people experience the same feeling of pain, even when it’s the same injury,…
Managing Pain
Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
by Paul Clement Pain and hemophilia go hand-in-hand. During a joint or muscle bleed, blood fills the joint cavity or makes muscles…
Interesting Fictional Teens….With Bleeding Disorders!
Living with a Bleeding Disorder
by Richard J. Atwood Do you ever wonder whether teenage fictional characters with bleeding disorders can foreshadow the future of our community?…
Does Having a Bleeding Disorder Mean I’m at a Higher Risk for Contracting COVID? Q & A.
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the bleeding disorders community understandably has many questions about the disease’s specific…
Managing a Bleeding Disorder During a Pandemic
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the bleeding disorders community understandably has many questions about the disease’s specific…
GET WIRED WITH HFA
Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders
Feeling disconnected from knowledge about women’s health and research? Get WIRED with the Hemophilia Federation of America (HFA) is seeking women with bleeding…
Unanswered Questions Remain in Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy, Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
A recent commentary published in the journal Haemophilia, posits that while clinical trials for hemophilia gene therapy approach conclusion, there remain significant unanswered…
What to Do if You Miss Your Child’s Annual Exam
Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Routine healthcare visits are being held up because of the pandemic, so many parents are missing their children’s annual hemophilia treatment center…
FDA Recommends Additional Data for BioMarin’s Investigational Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy, Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Biomarin announced that they received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on August 18th for their…
COVID-19 and VWF
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Recently, there has been considerable interest in the role von Willebrand Factor (VWF) may play in the complications of COVID-19, the infection…
CSL Acquires Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Candidate from uniQure
Gene Therapy, Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
CSL Behring recently announced that it has agreed to acquire exclusive global license rights from uniQure, to commercialize etranacogene dezaparvovec (AMT-061), an…
Mental Health
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
The upheaval and fear we experience during COVID-19 can have a lasting impact on our mental health. Learn more about how to…
Health & Exercise
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
How can two balloons keep your kids active? You’d be surprised. This video from Raising Rookies shows an array of games kids…
NHF Webinar Today, June 30: June for Joint Health
COVID-19, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Join us for an active and educational June for Joint Health webinar. Learn how you can start to form healthy habits by…
Medexus Acquires XINITY® from Aptevo
Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Aptevo Theraoeutics has sold their recombinant factor IX product IXINITY® to Canada-based Medexus Pharmaceuticals. IXINITY®, which first received approval from the U.S….
Show and Tell: Disclosing a Diagnosis in the School Setting
Living with a Bleeding Disorder
by: Cazandra Campos-MacDonald School’s in session! And with the start of a new school year comes a question for the principal: “When…
Could a Cure for Hemophilia Be Personalized?
Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
Has your hematologist ever asked that your child have pharmacokinetic (PK) testing? Chances are, the doctor wants to know how factor behaves…
Two Gene Therapy Medscape Activities Recertified
Gene Therapy, Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder
The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) is pleased to announce that two educational activities in the “Clinical Advances in Gene Therapy for Hemophilia”…