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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.

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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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In each issue of HemAware , we look at how local NHF chapters and associations are making a difference in...

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Father with two sons with hemophilia and inhibitors

2011 Inhibitor Summits

Living with hemophilia and an inhibitor can be isolating; people with inhibitors constitute a small portion of an already small...

Community in Action

Art therapy intern Kelly Pecl-Dreamer with young girl

Creative Treatment

When Ramiro Gomez was a freshman in high school, he was already starting on the varsity soccer squad in his...

Pain Management

Perseus Patel, winner of the NHF Kevin Child scholarship

2010 Kevin Child Scholarship Winner

Kevin Child was one month short of college graduation when he died of complications from AIDS in 1989. In his...

Community in Action

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)