World Anemia Awareness

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In one village in Nepal, a new bridge connects the community to the local school. During menstruation, some girls take a different route, because a temple stands at the end of the new bridge.
Nikita Paudel, MPP candidate at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs, grew up with these stories.
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This week our Violet joined Anne Nicholls and Mimi Pia in Kenya for Menstrual Health Day. A day with women and teenage girls, sewing reusable pads and talking iron deficiency. The link between heavy periods and missed school days matters. Boys' session next week.
#MenstrualHealthDay #BloodHealth

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How does anyone know what a normal period looks like?
Prof Sue Pavord (Oxford) and Dr Carol Lim (Malaysia) on why heavy menstrual bleeding is the most common cause of iron deficiency in young women.
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The best blood is your own blood, healthy and inside of you.
We ask about our heart. About our blood pressure. About our cholesterol.
The conversation about our blood is one of the most important in healthcare today, and one too few of us are having.
#BloodHealth #PatientBloodManagement

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Heavy periods are often dismissed as just part of being a woman. For young women especially, they can be the first sign of something else going on. Up to 1 in 3 women experience heavy menstrual bleeding. Many never connect it to tiredness, brain fog, or low mood. All can be signs of low iron.

#BloodHealth #IronDeficiency

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Dr. Carolyn Burns is a physician. She has also been a patient many, many times.
"Nurses come with this gift of solace and comfort when you are not at your best, and very often at your worst."

#InternationalNursesDay #IND2026

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Today on International Nurses Day, "What Nurses Know" is live in My Blood Health. Three expert nurses on what they see, what gets missed, and what every patient deserves to know about their blood health. Read at https://t.co/F1Iq7LSG6T

#InternationalNursesDay #IND2026

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On International Nurses Day, Dr. Matthew Warner names what physicians depend on nurses to make possible. Anemia optimization. Patient education. Daily care.

"I'm grateful to call so many great nurses my close colleagues and friends."

#InternationalNursesDay

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A powerful takeaway from @NATAforum.
Prof. Vernon Louw raised the link between iron deficiency and brain health.
Iron carries oxygen. The brain uses 20% of the body's supply.
Recent research links long-term iron deficiency to higher dementia risk later in life.

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Iron deficiency during pregnancy can affect a child's brain development for 20 years or more.
Prof. Vernon Louw, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Learn more in My Blood Health at https://t.co/dDgbNZOuZ4

#MaternalHealth #IronDeficiency

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For those living with hemophilia, a toddler running free is joy and held breath at the same time. Getting the right diagnosis is where care begins.
#WHD2026 #WorldHemophiliaDay #BloodHealth

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"This is not the way life is supposed to be. And it doesn't have to be that way."
Prof. Vernon Louw on iron deficiency and the symptoms too many women accept as normal.

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#IronDeficiency #WomensHealth

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Common. Testable. Treatable.
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When did you last check your own iron?

Prof. Vernon Louw — Professor of Medicine, Stellenbosch University — on what happens when clinicians finally test their own iron levels.

Full film releasing 7 April for World Health Day.
WAA Presents: Voices in Blood Health https://t.co/VAApvmVUiQ

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Fit, trained, and still exhausted. For many athletes, low iron is the reason nobody checked for.
Normal hemoglobin doesn't rule it out. Ferritin does.
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On #WorldWaterDay — where women lack safe water, iron deficiency follows. Infections deplete iron stores. Monthly blood loss compounds it. Ferritin tells the story hemoglobin misses.
#WaterAndGender #IronDeficiency #WomensHealth
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A normal hemoglobin result doesn't rule out iron deficiency. Ferritin, the protein that stores iron in the body, can be depleted long before hemoglobin is affected. Yet ferritin isn't always included in routine blood panels.
For clinicians, it's a distinction worth keeping in mind, particularly in patients presenting with unexplained fatigue, cognitive symptoms, or reduced exercise tolerance where standard results appear unremarkable.
The ferritin-hemoglobin relationship is one of the more underappreciated areas of blood health.
#BloodHealth #IronDeficiency #Ferritin #ClinicalEducation #PatientBloodManagement #Hematology

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Your kidneys don't just filter water. They help make your blood. 🩸
They produce EPO, a hormone that signals your bone marrow to make red blood cells. When kidneys struggle, anemia follows.
The kidney-blood connection is one worth knowing. 💧
#WorldKidneyDay #BloodHealth #AnemiaAwareness

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She packed her bags and travelled to India to understand why pregnant women were dying.
Nobody had thought to ask the question before.
This Women's History Month, we're telling her story. 🩸
#IWD2026 #GiveToGain #WomensHistoryMonth #BloodHealth

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Did you know iron deficiency may be more common in women with endometriosis than is often recognised, and the symptoms can look remarkably similar?
This #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth we're shining a light on a connection that matters to millions of women worldwide.
#EndometriosisAwareness #IronDeficiency #WomensHealth #BloodHealth