Summer 2015
Healthy Bites
Avoiding Lightning Strikes
Summer storms can materialize in a moment, so be prepared in case you get caught in the open when lightning strikes. But ...
Be Active and Stay Hydrated
Summertime draws you out of winter hibernation and into exercise mode. If you or your kids routinely exercise when it’s hot, sunny ...
Distracted Driving Dangers
Taking your eyes off the road for the few seconds it takes to read, type or send a text message can be ...
IOM Renames Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
In February 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) renamed chronic fatigue syndrome as systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID), better reflecting the main ...
Kids, Lighten Your Load
Although snails carry their houses on their backs, children shouldn’t. These days, backpacks serve as a catch-all for school supplies, a lunch ...
Luggage Lessons
Hoisting a heavy suitcase into your car or the overhead bin on an airplane can lead to neck, back and shoulder injuries ...
New Research on Peanut Allergies
For years, allergists have warned parents of susceptible children to avoid peanuts. Further, during the past 10 years, peanut allergies in children ...
Soothing Sunburns
Summer fun often means boating on the lake, swimming at the seashore and playing sports outdoors. But even the most protective sunscreens ...
Up Front
Research and Education Work Together
Nearly two decades ago I joined a team of researchers, mostly comprising physician-scientists, to help develop a gene therapy for hemophilia at ...
NHF in Action
A Look at the Spring Soiree
NHF held its 5th annual Spring Soiree on May 21, 2015. The more than 200 guests gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of ...
Blood Donor Deferral Policy
The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) commends the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for initiating development of a national blood surveillance monitoring ...
Global Focus
Treatment Around the World
The US bleeding disorders community will welcome the world to the 2016 World Federation of Hemophilia’s (WFH’s) World Congress in Orlando, Florida ...
Features
Information for All Providers
When a person with hemophilia seeks medical care outside his or her hemophilia treatment center (HTC), most likely the physician has little ...
Recognizing Great Clinical Work
NHF is committed to the training and support of clinician-researchers in hematology.
Stroke Prevention
Don’t tune out news stories about strokes just because you have hemophilia and think you’re protected. A 2011 study published in Haemophilia ...
On the Move
Swim Time
Swimming provides equal parts fun and good-for-you physical activity. It is one of the safest ways to be active for people with ...
Hemaware Jr.
Bullies, Be Gone!
What’s a kid like me supposed to do when a bully picks on me?Women's Health
Treating Nosebleeds
A glass-walled office offers no privacy when you’re hunched over a trash can with a nosebleed. So says Michelle Cecil, past president ...
Spotlight
Giving Back to the Bleeding Disorders Community
In each issue of HemAware, we spotlight someone in the bleeding disorders community. This issue, we speak with Dawn Pollard, who ...
Family Matters
Back-to-School Basics
Follow these back-to-school suggestions for your child with a bleeding disorder:
Generation Next
Career Choices
Whether you’ve known what you wanted to be since you were a kid or have no clue what’s next, your later teen ...
Prime Time
Under Pressure
Although you can’t feel it, it can hurt you. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a condition that should keep us on ...
In the Pipeline
