New hemophilia drugs aim to simplify treatment

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New hemophilia drugs aim to simplify treatment

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/hemophilia-drugs-aim-simplify-treatment-120552854--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Kn.xLn53B6fQcrngk8HpLQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-07T123917Z_1_CBREA260Z6400_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-HEMOPHILIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Hemophilia patient Roop is shown during his 2012 visit to Zion National Park in Utah" align="left" title="Hemophilia patient Roop is shown during his 2012 visit to Zion National Park in Utah" border="0" /></a>By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For 33-year-old video editor and hemophilia patient Travis Roop, being able to get life-saving infusions of a blood clotting agent every two weeks, instead of rushing to treat a bleeding episode, meant he could jog for the first time. Roop was enrolled in a clinical trial testing a long-acting treatment for hemophilia B from Denmark's Novo Nordisk. The therapy is one of several new blood clotting agents in development that will help hemophilia patients cut by half, or more, the number of regular intravenous infusions they need to prevent traumatic bleeding in their daily lives. &quot;I always avoided trauma to my left ankle ... With this, I knew it would take care of itself.&quot; People with hemophilia have a fault in a gene that regulates the body's production of proteins called clotting factors.</p><br clear="all"/>

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