It is with regret that the UNC Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center announces the departure of Paul E. Monahan, M.D. after a 25-year association with UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Monahan received his M.D. in 1990 from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA and completed his Internship/Residency at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Monahan …
Alice Ma, MD, associate professor, department of medicine, division of hematology-oncology, delivered this year's Whitehead Lecture on August 19. The themes of Ma’s lecture closely followed its title: “Endurance, Obstacles, Perseverance and Joy: My Transformation from the World’s Crummiest Medical Student to Faculty at the World’s Best Medical School.”
The 8th Symposium on Hemostasis: Translational and Basic Science Discoveries will be held May 12-24, 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Research showed that bleeding events were drastically decreased in animals with hemophilia B. Using a viral vector to swap out faulty genes proved safe and could be used for the more common hemophilia A.
Nigel Key, MD, Director of the UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, has been invited to deliver a state-of-the-art lecture at the British Society for Haematology Annual Scientific Meeting on April 20, 2015.
On Friday, January 9, the Food and Drug Administration approved edoxaban (Savaysa) as the fourth new oral anticoagulant (NOAC), giving it an indication in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation for renally impaired patients and in treating deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
"Factor VIII inhibitory antibody in a patient with combined factor V/factor VIII deficiency," a letter to the editor of the journal "Haemophilia" by UNC-Chapel Hill hematologists Tyler Buckner, MD, Brenda Nielsen, MSN, Nigel Key, MD, and Alice Ma, MD, was published online on December 4, 2014.
Gene therapy developed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, University College London (UCL) and the Royal Free Hospital has transformed life for men with a severe form of hemophilia B by providing a safe, reliable source of the blood clotting protein Factor IX that has allowed some to adopt a more active lifestyle, researchers reported. The results appear in the November 20 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.
On October 23, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Obizur [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant), Porcine Sequence] for the treatment of bleeding episodes in adults with acquired hemophilia A (acquired Factor VIII [FVIII] deficiency).
On September 12, 2014, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Baxter International Inc.'s RIXUBIS for routine prophylactic treatment, control and prevention of bleeding episodes, and perioperative management in children with hemophilia B.