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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

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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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Sports, Exercise, & Bleeding Disorders: How to Stay Fit Safely

Staying active is imperative for people with inheritable blood and bleeding disorders. It helps you retain and regain joint health...

Fitness & Nutrition

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HIV Treatments and Hemophilia: How HAART Therapy Is Helping

Treatments were basically nonexistent, and doctors didn’t understand how the virus was transmitted. By the time they discovered it was...

HIV

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What You Need to Know About Mild Hemophilia

Look up the word “mild” in the dictionary, and you’ll see it defined as “not severe, serious, or harsh.” But...

Hemophilia A&B

Philanthropy matters

Serving Hope and Joy

Teddy Taylor’s parents were both top-tier college athletes, so organizing a sporting event to benefit the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation...

Advocacy

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)