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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.”

Sponsored Content

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Verdict? Not Guilty

Treasa Chidester, 36, a nurse and attorney in Washington, DC, has known since childhood that she is a hemophilia carrier...

Family Matters

Pulse on the Road audience

Finger on the Pulse

The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) is collaborating with LA Kelley Communications to educate the bleeding disorders community on a variety...

Community in Action, Insurance

Robert and Michah Champagne and C.J. Wilson

Major Player

In each issue of HemAware , we “ Take 5” with people in the bleeding disorders community and spotlight their...

My Journey

Cross in front of church stained glass window

Keeping the Faith

When Staci Lowe’s younger son, Austin, 4, was 18 months old, a suspected stomach virus sapped his strength, landing him...

Family Matters

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