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Leighton and Shelley Easter at the gymnastics gym where Leighton trains.

A Mother’s Message

"She’s learning to go for her dreams."

My Journey

20 Screen-Free Summer Activities for Kids with Bleeding Disorders

Ways for children to stay active, engaged and unplugged.

Family Matters

Make a Difference for the Bleeding Disorders Community

The bleeding disorders community needs everyone to get involved.

Advocacy

A New Way to Look at Exercise

Americans get so many messages about the role of exercise in our health. We’re told that it can strengthen our...

Fitness & Nutrition

Financial Literacy Can Help Young Adults Offset the Costs of Living with Hemophilia

It can be tough as a young adult to get by financially—it’s not just that you want to go out...

Generation Next

Generation Sandwich

Growing kids. Aging parents. Adult children in the middle. People raising their children while coordinating care for their parents constitute...

Family Matters

Verdict? Not Guilty

Treasa Chidester, 36, a nurse and attorney in Washington, DC, has known since childhood that she is a hemophilia carrier...

Family Matters

How Modern Medicine Has Tackled HIV

Update, August 2013: The FDA approved Tivicay® (dolutegravir), manufactured by ViiV Healthcare, a GlaxoSmithKline company. Tivicay is an integrase strand...

HIV, Novel Technologies

Family Camps

Caprice Sauter and her husband, Joe, knew there was a chance that the child she was carrying could have severe...

Family Matters

The Next Chapter for Puerto Rico’s Bleeding Disorders Association

Orlando Vives has a severe form of hemophilia B and has been able to lead a relatively normal life, thanks...

NBDF in Action, Community in Action

Parents in the Bleeding Disorders Community Share Their Best Advice

HemAware asked parents for their best advice on what has helped them navigate their children’s bleeding disorders in the first...

Family Matters