Foundation News & Updates

FOUR friends have helped a Trowbridge schoolboy raise more than £1,300 for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance by joining more than 150 people in a Rudolph and Santa Dash on Sunday. Oliver Brooking and four of his friends raised the cash in sponsorship as a thank you to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance charity for saving his…

Patrick shares life post-ankle surgery and wonders if everything from now on will be impacted by hemophilia. Plus, a fantastic interview with Hemophilia of Georgia‘s Director of Advocacy, Michelle Conde, AND members of. Glanzmann’s Research Foundation, Inc., Peter Z, and Taylor Anne. We’ll cap the episode with another Let’s Talk mental health segment on acknowledging…

PANAJI: Unexplained red and purple bruises began appearing on Jacob Fernandes’ (named changed) body when he was still a toddler. At age two, after several rounds of hospitals and laboratories, Jacob was diagnosed with the rarest of disorders, Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia, which causes the patient to bleed easily, sometimes for days. Only 500 cases of Glanzmann’s…

Living with Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia, an ultra-rare disorder, could be daunting for some. But for Esmeralda Vásquez, it’s her reason for giving back, raising her voice, and being a powerful advocate for all people with rare blood and bleeding disorders. Over the years, Esmeralda’s name has become synonymous with health equity and patient-centric care. She is…

Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia is a rare disorder that causes Cheyenne’s body to bleed constantly. CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) – You never, ever know what anyone else might be facing. Please meet Cheyenne McNeilly, a rising seventh-grader at Burns Middle School in Cleveland County. She was born in 2010 in Shelby with a cone-shaped head and some…

A fun walk/run at Sauble Beach helped raise more than $6,000 for SickKids hospital Sunday morning. Article content The annual eight-kilometer Sauble Beach Chamber of Commerce event had about 60 participants. It has raised more than $40,000 in support of bleeding disorders over the last several years, said Dave Fretz one of the event’s organizers….

Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia (GT) is a rare bleeding disorder, estimated to affect 1 in a million people. Compared to more “common” bleeding disorders such as hemophilia, GT receives a lot less attention when it comes to research and developments. Haemnet recently commenced the Glanzmann’s 360 Study which will explore the ways in which GT affects those…

It’s no secret that not all bleeding disorders are created equally. A huge amount of time, research effort, and funding have improved our understanding of the impact of hemophilia on those living with it. Over time this has resulted in the development of effective treatments. By contrast, a brief glance at the number of publications…

The last weekend of April 2022 was quite the weekend, to say the least. Board officers visited Dr. David Wilcox in his lab (the Kelly Weil Laboratory) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The lab has been working for decades to make many advances in gene therapy including a specific type of gene therapy that…