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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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Little girl with the flu

When Your Kids with Bleeding Disorders Get Sick

At the National Hemophilia Foundation’s 58th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in October 2006, a parent stood up in a session...

Family Matters

Red blood cells for parvovirus article

FDA Recommends Screening Blood Products for Parvovirus B19

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a recommendation in July 2009 that makers of plasma-derived products, which include...

Blood Safety

Adam Wilmers and Gil Ferguson

Hemophilia Look Back

For Mike O’Connor, attending college as a young man with hemophilia in the late 1970s and early 1980s meant forging...

Generation Next, Adults & Aging

Man with laptop

Bleeding Disorders and Your Online Family Health Portrait

For this family portrait, you don’t even need a camera. All you need is a computer and some health history...

Family Matters

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)