In Episode 5, we take a look at recent community news during our Trending Topics Segment- including a new virtual reality game designed to help reduce kids’ anxiety during infusions and a new needle that won’t cause bleeding after it’s removed, and we take a deeper dive into three stories during our Like, Share, Comment Segment. This month we also feature my Sit Down with the iconic HIV/AIDS and hemophilia advocate Jeanne White-Ginder. All that and more, on episode 5 of BloodStream!

Sponsors for Episode 5:

• Presenting Sponsor: Stop The Bleeding! (STB!) Link to STB! Website.
• Supporting Sponsor: Entertainment to Affect Change (E2AC) Link to E2AC website.

Trending Topics:

• The National Hemophilia Foundation launches a new series of educational webinars. Link
• Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio is piloting a virtual reality game designed to help reduce anxiety and stress in pediatric infusions. Link
• Genetic Linkage Analysis may lead to a simple way to diagnose women carrying the gene causing hemophilia A.  Link (Story) Link (Study)
• A self-sealing hemostatic needle that won’t cause bleeding when removed from a vein. Link
• Two tools for patient reported outcomes address the need for personalization of outcomes Link.

Like, Share, Comment Segment:    

• HFA Gears For Good Riders raise $130,000 for Helping Hands. Link
• Barry Haarde completes his fifth trans-con bike ride, totaling 5,000 miles and raising over $52,000. Link
• Alex Dowsett, the professional cyclist with hemophilia, launches Little Bleeders charity to encourage fitness and athletics for children with bleeding disorders. Link
• Colorado’s Kyle Haas rides 500 miles through mountain passes. Link
• Sleep resources curated and posted to The BloodStream Blog.
• HIV now “undetectable” in British man. Link
• Why talk of HIV cure is premature (from BBC). Link
• Why it’s too soon to say HIV has been cured (from PopSci). Link
• amfAR - statistics on young people and HIV (Link) and the US and HIV (Link)

The Sit Down:

• USA Today’s Top 25 people (1982 - 2007). Link
• The AIDS Memorial Grove. Link
• The HIV Story Project. Link
• Surviving Voices, a collaboration between the HIV Story Project and The Grove. Link

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