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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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Henry Nicols and his family

Honoring Henry

In each issue of HemAware, we “Take 5” with people in the bleeding disorders community and spotlight their accomplishments with...

My Journey

Dollar bill

Economic Forces and Your Insurance

Longtime rallying cries in the bleeding disorders community have been for insurance plans to cover all factor products and for...

Insurance

Ray Stanhope

The Cost of Complacency

Although I received my healthcare early in life from the military and didn’t meet another person with hemophilia until I...

Community in Action

Young couple

Contraceptive Helps Decrease Bleeding in Women

There is good news for women with bleeding disorders looking for a new option in contraception. Researchers have shown that...

Von Willebrand Disease, Women's Bleeding Disorders

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