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Hemophilia
Hemophilia is a disease were your blood cannot clot. Clotting is the process were your blood turns from a liquid to a solid, this is a necessary process for the blood to stop bleeding. All of the many types of hemophilia cause prolonged bleeding. But people with hemophilias' main concerns are internal bleeding, and bleeding into joints.
Cause of Hemophilia
Hemophilia is a genetic disease. The disease is usually passed from mother to son. Females are usually only the carriers of the diease, the symptoms usually only show in males.
How many people have hemophilia? Probability. How was hemophilia discovered? Screening/diagnosage of hemophilia.
Hemophilia is a rare diease, in the United States there are about 17,000 people in the United States living with hemophilia.
The chances of getting hemophilia are extreamly rare. About 1 in every 5,000 babies born in the United States are born with hemophilia. Worldwide, about 1 in ever 10,000 males are born with hemophilia, and about 1 in every 10,000,000 experience symptems of hemophilia.
Hemophila has been around for years. The first recording of hemophilia are in the Jewish holy text, Talmud. Then in the twelfth century, the Arab physician Albucasis wrote of a family whose sons died of bleeding after minor injuries. Then in 1828 first usage of the term "haemophilia" appeared in a description of hemophilia was written by Hopff at the University of Zurich. In 1937, Patek and Taylor, two doctors from Harvard, discovered that there are many kinds of hemophilia, hemophilia A, and hemophilia B. There are more kinds of haemophilus, but Patek and TYaylor only discovered two.