20 year-old Danielle has been a patient at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since she was 10. She’s now facing a kidney transplant, and the life-altering chance to be free of dialysis. She’s one of the many patients and families Friends of Patients is helping this year as they navigate critical treatment at the […]
by Aubrey Rumore John, 22, from San Antonio, TX, is the first and only patient enrolled in a groundbreaking treatment protocol for Aplastic Anemia at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. He remembers well the day he was diagnosed. It was the fall of 2015. He was on his way to his little […]
Fatima, 19, from Mauritania, celebrated her treatments by naming every bag of life-saving blood cells she received. Her aunt, Mary, through tears, calls her the “bravest” woman she has ever met. Fatima has severe aplastic anemia — her bone marrow produced no blood cells. A year ago, Fatima called her aunt and uncle (Americans who live in Vietnam) […]
