BloodStream

BloodStream is an entertaining and informational podcast for the bleeding disorders community. Each week, hemophilia patient Patrick James Lynch and former non-profit director Amy Board are joined by advocacy leaders, medical experts, and other guests to discuss the latest news, scientific advancements, policy initiatives, and so much more. Subscribe wherever you listen, or search BloodStream Podcast on YouTube to catch every episode there. Produced by Believe Limited. Presenting sponsor: Takeda.

Medicaid Cuts and vWD Clinical Trials 05/09/2025

Medicaid Cuts and vWD Clinical Trials Potential Medicaid cuts are looming that could affect our community. Hear how you can take action! We also have exciting news about a clinical trial for von Willebrand’s disease and a special community story from Kayla Klein and her mother, Nancy Rodgers. Plus, Patrick has some fantastic updates from the WFH’s Comprehensive Care Summit in Dubai. Presenting Sponsor: Takeda, visit to learn more. Show Notes: Subscribe: Medicaid Cuts - Take Action Today! Please call or email the offices you visited in March and remind your lawmakers that Medicaid is a lifeline: ask them to reject Medicaid funding cuts and other policies that would reduce coverage and disrupt care. For email, contact the staffer you met with at Washington Days (check your sent mail for the thank you notes). If you no longer have contact information for your lawmakers’ offices, you can call the Capitol switchboard at 202.224.3121 and ask them to connect you. Say or email: I am [calling/emailing] as a member of the bleeding disorders community and as a constituent to ask you to reject cuts to federal Medicaid funding. I am relying on you, as my Senator/Representative in Congress, to protect Medicaid from funding cuts and other policies that would reduce coverage and care.  Medicaid covers life-sustaining treatment and care for up to one-third of the bleeding disorders community. Without Medicaid, low-income people with bleeding disorders will have no access to the regular care they need to prevent or treat painful, debilitating, and potentially life-threatening bleeding episodes. People will experience preventable health complications – and overall healthcare costs will rise. Please stand with the bleeding disorders community and so many others who rely on Medicaid, and reject cuts to this program that provides essential coverage to vulnerable individuals across the country. ** Hemab Therapeutics Announces Start of Velora Pioneer, a Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial Investigating HMB-002 for the Treatment of Von Willebrand Disease: about the vWD clinical trial participation Connect with BloodStream Media: /episode/index/show/bloodstream/id/36499135

New Music from Trevor Martin and info about Deliver Us, an upcoming documentary 04/25/2025

Shakeup at CDC - What does it mean??? 04/11/2025

Shakeup at CDC - What does it mean??? On April 1st, the Administration announced drastic changes and reductions to the federal health programs, one being the Division of Blood Disorders CDC, greatly affecting the bleeding disorders community. To discuss these concerns, we welcome a familiar face to many of you - Johanna Gray, federal policy advisor to NBDF and all-around wonderful human. Presenting Sponsor: Takeda, visit to learn more. Show Notes: Subscribe: The CDC cuts are of particular concern to our community. The Division of Blood Disorders’ work traces back to the 1980s’ tainted blood crisis, when CDC investigators were the first to discern and warn of HIV’s transmissibility through blood and blood products. To this day, the Division serves the bleeding disorders community and the nation at large through its public health surveillance activities – including maintaining a laboratory with blood samples dating back to 1996. The Division also funds the collection of key data on bleeding disorders through its “Community Counts” program, and supports educational outreach to increase patient and provider understanding of hemophilia and its complications. Elimination of the Division, its clinical repository, and its institutional knowledge would be a huge loss for the bleeding disorders community. WHAT CAN YOU DO? Call the Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 *Anyone can call this number and get connected with their Senators and Representative. I am calling as a member of the bleeding disorders community and as a constituent to ask that you protect the federal hemophilia programs at the CDC. The recent HHS restructuring eliminated essentially all of the staff at the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders, where the hemophilia programs are housed. These programs: Help to collect important data on bleeding disorders which in turn helps lead to new and more effective treatments. Provide funding for education and outreach to increase patient and provider understanding of hemophilia. Help to protect the safety of our nation’s blood supply. I’m very worried about what this means for people with bleeding disorders and our country. Please work to restore the staffing and activities of the CDC Division of Blood Disorders. I am relying on you, as my Senator/Representative in Congress, to take action to ensure that the staff for this program are reinstated and to work to protect the funding for this critical program. ** For years, people with hemophilia A waited for a cure, while inhibitor patients were left behind—but now, after setbacks and failed launches of several gene therapies, investors think patients aren’t interested. By taking this short survey, you can make your voice heard and show investors that our community still wants a durable gene therapy, but this time for both hemophilia A with or without inhibitors. Connect with BloodStream Media: /episode/index/show/bloodstream/id/36076015