Dateline: Ask the CDC – What's von Willebrand Disease?

Erik von Willebrand, a Finnish physician, noticed several young girls in one family shared symptoms of a bleeding disorder. The year was 1924, and von Willebrand recognized that the girls’ symptoms were different from those of someone with hemophilia, a disease mostly affecting males. He called this new disease pseudohemophilia, or false hemophilia, but others […]

Infusing Love: Stealing My Joy? Never!

 For over a year my family has lived like most everyone else in the world.  We get up, go to work and school, have fun, go on trips, eat and play….it’s all very good.  Our oldest son has gone away to college and our youngest is in the fifth grade. The blessing has been that […]

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