River’s Road to Recovery

River, a patient diagnosed with factor VII deficiency and Glanzmann thrombasthenia, smiles in his hospital room.

The World’s Only Known Case, But Still Thriving River was born at a nearby hospital in January 2019. Shortly after his birth, his parents, Lauren and Rick, noticed some unusual bruising on his back. Doctors couldn’t immediately identify the cause. At his first pediatrician visit the morning after he was discharged, the physician agreed something […]