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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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Pastor Shane Stanford

Cure-All

HemAware “ Takes 5” with people in the bleeding disorders community and spotlights their efforts with just five questions. Here...

My Journey

New Orleans bridge

NYLI Members Examine BP Oil Bleed in New Orleans

At the National Hemophilia Foundation’s (NHF’s) 62nd Annual Meeting in New Orleans in November 2010, the National Youth Leadership Institute...

Community in Action

Teresa D’Ambrosio (right) and her sister as children

Factor V Deficiency

Read more about the D'Ambrosios in stepmom Cheryl's own words, in our Community Voices section. A hangnail hardly constitutes a...

Rare Bleeding Disorders

Cheryl Nineff D’Ambrosio

A Family Matter

Read more about this family's experience in the Factor V Deficiency article. Both my stepdaughters were born with severe factor...

Rare Bleeding Disorders, Community in Action

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