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5 Free Period Tracking Apps to Help You Monitor Your Menstrual Cycle

Understanding more about your period can help you have greater control over your health, especially when managing a bleeding disorder.
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5 Free Period Tracking Apps to Help You Monitor Your Menstrual Cycle
Period Tracking Apps and Privacy: What Women with Bleeding Disorders Should Know

Menstruation tracking is a valuable tool. Experts say to be vigilant in what information you share.
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Period Tracking Apps and Privacy: What Women with Bleeding Disorders Should Know
Acquired Hemophilia: When Unexpected Bleeding Appears Later in Life

The rare condition usually affects people in their 70s and 80s without warning. Here’s what you need to know.
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Acquired Hemophilia: When Unexpected Bleeding Appears Later in Life

Recent Articles

Doctor and patient

Ask a Social Worker: “I’m 17 with VWD, and my periods are awful. What can I do if my doctor suggests birth control, but my mom doesn’t want me to take it?”

Heavy periods with a bleeding disorder are common, and there are safe, private options to help teens manage them.

Ask a Social Worker

RBCs

What Is Anti-TFPI? This New Treatment Could Change Hemophilia Care

This rebalancing agent can help people with hemophilia A or B — with or without inhibitors — to better control...

Hemophilia A&B, Novel Technologies

Frank and Carla

The Bleeds Wouldn’t Stop – But This Patient Didn’t Give Up

“I wanted to live my life like there was nothing wrong, but the fear was always there.”

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Shannon Meeks, MD

NHF-Shire Clinical Fellow Profile: Shannon Meeks, MD

This interview was conducted with Shannon Meeks, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Emory University...

Researcher Profiles

Parents of Newly Diagnosed Children Receive Help From Support Groups

Parental Support Groups

In July 2011, a series of contradictory blood tests on their infant son, Ty, played with the emotions of Joni...

Family Matters

Metallic DNA strand with "key"

Genotyping for Progress

During the past 20 years, advances in hemophilia treatment, including recombinant factor therapy, have allowed people with hemophilia to take...

Novel Technologies, Hemophilia A&B

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If you’re a woman between the ages of 18 and 25 who lives in Wisconsin and has a Facebook account...

Chapter Roundup, Women's Bleeding Disorders

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)