Bleeding Disorders A-Z

Factor VII Deficiency

Skye Peltier’s life changed on a playground when she was 5 years old. After going down a slide, she lingered...

Mark Antell had hepatitis C for decades before he decided to fight the disease. A chronic viral infection, hepatitis C...

Hepatitis C

Despite seeking treatment for her symptoms for years, Jill R. Birdwhistell, PhD, was never diagnosed with a bleeding disorder. Heavy...

The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) wants all women in the US to be able to raise their fingers in the...

Von Willebrand Disease, Carriers, Women's Bleeding Disorders

Connie McMullan’s kitchen is a testament to the things she holds dear: a collection of stuffed bears, glass angels that...

“One and two and flip.” Lilliam Bervis thinks out loud, concentrating on her partner’s precise and rhythmic steps as the...

Despite hemophilia’s very visible symptoms—bleeding and bruising— the disorder has been a hidden one for a long time.

Hemophilia A&B, Advocacy

When Emily Bartko, 4, of Las Vegas, was an infant, bruising came easily. All it took was the pressure from...

Like thousands of other people with hemophilia A, 17-year-old Sean O’Connor lacks the genetic machinery to produce a working version...

Hemophilia A&B

In January 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved CSL Behring’s RiaSTAP™ for the treatment of acute bleeding...

Hogan Lust started walking last month. He’s two and a half years old. For the tow-headed toddler from Tucson, that...

Hemophilia A&B

Update, January 2014: On December 23, 2013, the FDA approved Tretten, Coagulation Factor XIII A-Subunit (Recombinant), which is the first...