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Mar 28 BIIB Race To Treat Alzheimer's Disease Is Heating Up Despite Eli Lilly's Setback
Mar 27 PFE Moderna (MRNA) Posts Upbeat Data From Next-Gen COVID Jab Study
Mar 27 PFE TipRanks’ ‘Perfect 10’ List: These 3 Top-Scoring Stocks Are Sending a Bullish Signal
Mar 27 PFE Is Most-Watched Stock Pfizer Inc. (PFE) Worth Betting on Now?
Mar 27 BAX Baxter to Host Annual Meeting of Stockholders in Virtual Format
Mar 27 PFE Analysts on Wall Street Lower Ratings for These 10 Stocks
Mar 27 PFE 3 No-Brainer Healthcare Stocks to Buy Right Now for Less Than $1,000
Mar 26 BAX Don't 'run away' from tech, but do broaden out: Strategist
Mar 26 BIIB CHMP to Delay Nod on Biogen (BIIB), Eisai's Alzheimer's Drug
Mar 26 PFE SEC Tests Insider-Trading Theory at Trial of Ex-Biotech Executive
Mar 26 PFE UPDATE 1-China to speed up 'new productive forces', vice president says
Mar 26 PFE 2 High-Yield Dividend Stocks You Can Buy With $100 Now and Hold Forever
Mar 25 BIIB Biogen Inc. (BIIB) Dips More Than Broader Market: What You Should Know
Mar 25 PFE Pfizer (PFE) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
Mar 25 SGMO What You Need To Know About The Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGMO) Analyst Downgrade Today
Mar 25 PFE Bayer (BAYRY) Banks on Pipeline Progress Amid Challenges
Mar 25 PFE German industry sceptical of China's vow to treat foreign firms equally
Mar 25 BIIB Labcorp (LH) Boost Diagnostics Suite With New Biomarker Test
Mar 25 PFE UPDATE 2-BioNTech gets US agency notice over default on COVID vaccine royalties
Mar 25 PFE Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly May Finally Have Some Real Competition
Hemophilia

Haemophilia is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding. This results in people bleeding longer after an injury, easy bruising, and an increased risk of bleeding inside joints or the brain. Those with a mild case of the disease may have symptoms only after an accident or during surgery. Bleeding into a joint can result in permanent damage while bleeding in the brain can result in long term headaches, seizures, or a decreased level of consciousness.There are two main types of haemophilia: haemophilia A, which occurs due to not enough clotting factor VIII, and haemophilia B, which occurs due to not enough clotting factor IX. They are typically inherited from one's parents through an X chromosome with a nonfunctional gene. Rarely a new mutation may occur during early development or haemophilia may develop later in life due to antibodies forming against a clotting factor. Other types include haemophilia C, which occurs due to not enough factor XI, and parahaemophilia, which occurs due to not enough factor V. Acquired haemophilia is associated with cancers, autoimmune disorders, and pregnancy. Diagnosis is by testing the blood for its ability to clot and its levels of clotting factors.Prevention may occur by removing an egg, fertilizing it, and testing the embryo before transferring it to the uterus. Treatment is by replacing the missing blood clotting factors. This may be done on a regular basis or during bleeding episodes. Replacement may take place at home or in hospital. The clotting factors are made either from human blood or by recombinant methods. Up to 20% of people develop antibodies to the clotting factors which makes treatment more difficult. The medication desmopressin may be used in those with mild haemophilia A. Studies of gene therapy are in early human trials.Haemophilia A affects about 1 in 5,000–10,000, while haemophilia B affects about 1 in 40,000, males at birth. As haemophilia A and B are both X-linked recessive disorders, females are rarely severely affected. Some females with a nonfunctional gene on one of the X chromosomes may be mildly symptomatic. Haemophilia C occurs equally in both sexes and is mostly found in Ashkenazi Jews. In the 1800s haemophilia was common within the royal families of Europe. The difference between haemophilia A and B was determined in 1952. The word is from the Greek haima αἷμα meaning blood and philia φιλία meaning love.

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