A number of years ago, the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society (CHS) teamed up with Canadian Blood Services (CBS) to get the word out that eligible people with hemochromatosis can donate their blood towards life saving purposes. This partnership made sense; after all, if your body overloads in iron, you need to remove your blood with a [...]
Doctors Paul Adams and James Barton recently wrote an article entitled How I treat Hemochromatosis. In this article, Adams and Barton discuss phlebotomy (blood-letting) therapy for C282Y homozygotes, the pros and cons of other forms of hemochromatosis treatment, and dietary management. This article gives good information for physicians and hemochromatosis patients about when the authors [...]
Today we begin our fall phone campaign. From now through to December, we will be contacting past and present supporters of the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society to thank them, renew their interest in our mission, and listen to their ideas and experiences with hemochromatosis. Allen Boolinoff is the project coordinator and will be making the majority [...]