Family Planning for Carriers For women hemophilia carriers, the choice to add a child to the family goes far beyond the question: “Should we... Read More Carriers Pregnancy Planning and Bleeding Disorders See Letters to the Editor in response to this article. Read More Carriers, Women's Bleeding Disorders Planning for Pregnancy to Minimize Risks of Bleeding Disorders See cover article, " Pregnant Pause." Pregnancy and birth are often times of great joy, but they can also be... Read More Carriers Questions Answered About Pregnancy and Bleeding Disorders For women with bleeding disorders (including carriers), pregnancy can be a time of heightened worry and confusion. Read More Von Willebrand Disease, Carriers Testing Carrier Factor Levels in Women Three years ago Lisa Webb,* of Rochester, New York, was shocked to learn that her newborn son, Matthew, had severe... Read More Carriers Knowledge Is Power for Symptomatic Carriers Lara Palermo was 19 years old when she delivered her first child, Natalia, in 1996. Instead of going home after... Read More Carriers Pumping Iron “Iron-poor blood” sounds like an old-fashioned ailment, but it’s not. It’s still the most common 21st-century cause of a condition... Read More Adults & Aging, Fitness & Nutrition, Women's Bleeding Disorders Women’s Health and Bleeding Disorders Institute Launches As Patrice Flax, MS, MSW, was chatting with the clerk at the checkout counter, she mentioned her appointment as education... Read More Von Willebrand Disease, Women's Bleeding Disorders The Benefits Of Knowing Your Genotype “Missense” and “nonsense” make sense at the molecular level. These are genetic mutations that cause hemophilia. Knowing your genotype, or... Read More Hemophilia A&B, Carriers Two Medications Approved For Von Willebrand Disease, Menorrhagia In late 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two new medications of interest to the bleeding disorders... Read More Von Willebrand Disease, Women's Bleeding Disorders Educating Gynecologists The first time doctors told Sherri Revard that she couldn’t have a bleeding disorder because she was a girl, she... Read More Von Willebrand Disease, Women's Bleeding Disorders Young Women Carry the Flag Lilliam Bervis’s first period lasted a month. She gets nosebleeds when she spends too much time in the sun. She... Read More Von Willebrand Disease, Women's Bleeding Disorders Load More
