UF researchers work to improve treatments for people who have hemophilia
Daily life can be hazardous to 3-year-old Andrew Xiong’s health. Simple bumps and bruises can lead to internal bleeding that can land him in the hospital. Andrew has hemophilia, a disorder in which the blood has difficulty clotting because of a defective gene.
William “Max” McBrayer, 7, also has been in and out of the hospital since he was 9-and-a-half months old because of hemophilia.
Both boys get frequent injections of the blood-clotting protein their body doesn’t produce, and without which they bleed easily and profusely.