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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

Two teenagers watch the TV show Royal Pains.

Hemophilia Takes Center Stage

Despite hemophilia’s very visible symptoms—bleeding and bruising— the disorder has been a hidden one for a long time.

Hemophilia A&B, Advocacy

Rare bleeding disorder

Understanding Factor 1 Deficiency

When Emily Bartko, 4, of Las Vegas, was an infant, bruising came easily. All it took was the pressure from...

Rare Bleeding Disorders

Betty Jane and Bob Henry, co-founders of the National Hemophilia Foundation

NHF Co-Founder Betty Jane Henry Dies at 93

Betty Jane Henry died at her home in Wellington, Florida, on Sunday, September 5, at the age of 93. She...

Advocacy, Community in Action

Boy with hemophilia on playground

Hemophilia Prophylaxis Leads to Joint Health

Like thousands of other people with hemophilia A, 17-year-old Sean O’Connor lacks the genetic machinery to produce a working version...

Hemophilia A&B

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