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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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Middle school boys

Middle Schoolers and Bleeding Disorders

See the “ 504 Accommodation Plan” sidebar. Like most parents, Joyce Hewitt had a back-to-school routine for her children.

Generation Next

Camper

Camps for Kids with Bleeding Disorders

See the NHF Camp Directory. Daniel Birgy didn’t want to go to camp. The doctors and nurses at his hemophilia...

Family Matters

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Teens Can Manage Their Bleeding Disorders

Kody Schrimshaw’s morning routine is usually the same. The 15-year-old high school freshman, who has severe hemophilia A, wakes up...

Generation Next

Teen and counselor

Career Decisions for Teens with Bleeding Disorders

As a registered nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Allan...

Generation Next

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)