News

Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia: More Than Just Nosebleeds

Health and Well Being, Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder

Often misdiagnosed, this common blood disorder can frequently lead to anemia and sometimes organ damage. It can also cause life-threatening gastrointestinal, brain,…

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Bleeding Disorder Self-Care and Self-Advocacy for College Students

Advocacy & Legislation, Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder

Follow these tips to manage your condition while you’re away from home and on your own.

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Specialized Clinics for Women and Girls with Bleeding Disorders Are Improving Care

Health and Well Being, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Many women spend years searching for answers. Clinics that bring hematology and gynecology together are helping close gaps with coordinated care.

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How to Build Your Child’s Confidence

Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder

Here’s what you should—and shouldn’t—say to kids to help them feel empowered about their bleeding disorder.

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What Meaningful Change Looks Like

Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Improving care for women and girls with bleeding disorders requires changes at multiple levels. It includes earlier recognition of heavy menstrual bleeding…

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FAQ: The Importance of Genetic Counseling for Hemophilia and Other Bleeding Disorders

Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

What is genetic counseling? Genetic counseling helps people understand how a genetic test for inherited bleeding disorders may affect themselves, others in…

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Heavy Periods: What Can Help

Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Track Your Symptoms Keeping track of bleeding patterns can help providers recognize warning signs sooner. Consider noting: How many days bleeding lastsHow…

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Bleeding Disorder Symptoms Across Stages of Life

Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Bleeding disorders can affect women and girls differently at different stages of life. Symptoms may appear during childhood, intensify with menstruation or…

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The Toll of Heavy Bleeding

Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Heavy bleeding can disrupt nearly every aspect of daily life. People describe missing school and work, carrying extra clothes and menstrual products…

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The Problem with Women As “Just Carriers” for Bleeding Disorders

Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Classic medical teaching around hemophilia focused on X-linked inheritance: Males were affected, while females were carriers. But providers say that framework oversimplified the reality….

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Animal Justice on Dog Research after Ontario Ban

Gene Therapy, Industry News & Research

The government of Ontario, Canada, recently passed a ban on invasive medical research involving dogs and cats. This appears to directly affect…

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A $39 Million Grant for Hemophilia A Gene Therapy

Industry News & Research

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia received an award of up to $38.9 million from ARPA-H for a five-year program developing personalized gene-editing therapies…

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Stimate Returns

Health and Well Being, Industry News & Research

On July 29 Ferring announced that Stimate nasal spray will return after a six-year absence following the 2020 recall. Patient availability is…

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Altuviiio Update

Health and Well Being, Industry News & Research

Altuviiio (efanesoctocog alfa) continues to impress in difficult-to-treat patients. A French real-world study reported that once-weekly Altuviiio reduced treated bleeds by about…

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Hemlibra Success

Health and Well Being, Industry News & Research

A published study in Blood Advances reports that over 60% of hemophilia A patients on Hemlibra (emicizumab) experienced no bleeding episodes. Long-term treatment with…

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Bryce’s Brave Bunch Finds Community at Unite Walk!

GLHF News

The Unite for Bleeding Disorders Walk is Saturday, September 26 at the Milwaukee County Zoo. This is Bryce’s Brave Bunch’s second year…

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A Guide to Medicaid Changes

Advocacy & Legislation, Industry News & Research

Changes to Medicaid could affect access to coverage, treatment, infusion services, and specialty care for some people with hemophilia. The Coalition for…

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Von Willebrand Disease Research Gets Active

Industry News & Research, Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

The first serious efforts to develop long-acting subcutaneous preventive treatments for VWD are taking place. VGA039 is a subcutaneous antibody designed to…

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First Mimetic on Track

Industry News & Research

Novo Nordisk’s “Mim8” (denecimig) is an investigational bispecific antibody that mimics activated factor VIII. According to findings from the multinational randomized, Phase…

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Hemophilia History: Remembering the Romanovs

GLHF News

Hemophilia has quite a history. Perhaps the most famous personality with hemophilia in history was Prince Alexei Romanov, whose father, Nicholas II,…

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Learn More About Fibrinogen Deficiency

Industry News & Research

Fibrinogen deficiency is an ultra-rare bleeding disorder, and now NBDF has a publication to help people with this condition gain a deeper…

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Federal and State Advocacy Update

Advocacy & Legislation, Living with a Bleeding Disorder

A group of 26 states are suing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over the new work requirements for Medicaid eligibility;…

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HYMPAVZI® Receives Expanded Indication from FDA

Industry News & Research

The new indication for HYMPAVZI® (marstacimab-hncq) broadens access to this once-weekly non-factor prophylactic therapy that targets TFPI to improve clotting and reduce bleeding…

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Introducing Bleeding.org Conversations: A New Podcast from NBDF

Health and Well Being, Living with a Bleeding Disorder, Women with Bleeding Disorders

Each month, we’re sitting down with the experts in our community for some real talk. Hosted by actor and advocate Greg Grunberg, Bleeding.org…

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