FWGBD Earns Gold Seal of Transparency by Nationally-known Nonprofit Watchdog
The Foundation for Women & Grils with Blood DIsorders recently earned a Gold Seal of Transparency by Guidestar, a respected national nonprofit watchdog. FWGBD relies…
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MAC and LAN Members Provide Heavy Menstrual Bleeding TEDTalk
It isn't every day we get a forum as prestigious and popular as TEDTalks to share our know-how when it comes to women and girls…
New Manga Book Helps Kids Understand Hemophilia
A Japanese hematologist and his colleagues have developed a new manga book for kids, designed to help both carriers and those with hemophilia understand and adapt…
Q&A with Dr. Jeff Federspiel, High-Risk Obstetrician
Jerome (Jeff) Federspiel, MD, PhD is a maternal fetal medicine fellow in the Department of Ob/Gyn at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. He's also…
Ohio HTC Adds Female Clinic
We're excited to share the news that a Toledo, Ohio Clinic of Excellence, Northwest Ohio Hemophilia Treatment Center, will be adding an adolescent female and…
Free CDC Webinar on Thalassemia
The CDC is offering this #free provider webinar on Tuesday 8/13/2019 from 2 to 3 pm EDT: "In this webinar, we will review the range of…
FWGBD Honors Hematologist Peter Kouides, M.D.
We're excited to announce we've bestowed our “Ann-Marie Nazzaro” Award on Dr. Peter Kouides – a Rochester, New York-based hematologist and Medical Advisory Committee member. Our team…
Understanding Why When There’s HMB: A Multidisciplinary Approach
When Ayesha Zia, MD (pictured, right, with FWGBD Executive Director Kerry Funkhouser) was growing up in Pakistan, family dinner table conversations did not shy away…
Free Provider Webinar from the CDC
Register Online Today Guest Presenter: Janet L. Kwiatkowski, MD, MSCE,…
FWGBD Welcomes Two MAC Members
The Foundation for Women & Girls with Blood Disorders is pleased to announce our new Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) members. These new members have backgrounds…
Listen, Learn, Lead: How a Portland Hematologist Is Pioneering Treatment for Girls with Bleeding Disorders
When we caught up with Kristina Haley, D.O. of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, she was fresh out of the 2018…
Announcing Six NEW ASH Clinical Practice Guidelines on VTE
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a highly prevalent and far-reaching public health problem that, despite effective new options for prevention…
Register Now for FWGBD’s Uterine Hemostasis Colloquium II
Uterine Hemostasis Colloquium II Preceding the HTRS/NASTH 2019 Scientific Symposium https://www.htrs.org/HTRS/Education-Events/HTRSNASTH-2019-Scientific-Sympoisum Program Co-Chairs: Andra H. James, MD, MPH, and Kenneth G. Mann, PhD Program Description:…
RFI from NHLBI: To Improve Treatment of Patients with the Severe Hemophilia A Phenotype
Soliciting Input for future research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on Factor VIII (FVIII) immunogenicity and FVIII inhibitor prevention/eradication in patients with…
Improved Quality of Life for Adolescents with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
What exactly is “quality of life”? To match objective measurements of menstrual bleeding and pair them with a rather subjective quality of life ideal, Tazim…