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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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Sandbox at day care

Selecting a Day Care

Finding reputable day care is one of a family’s most important decisions. For a family with children who have been...

Family Matters

Children at hemophilia conference

Education Advocacy

In each issue of HemAware , we take a look at how local NHF chapters are making a difference in...

Chapter Roundup

Boy with hemophilia shooting arrow in archery

Targeting Fun

Archery is a summer camp mainstay. Just ask Tim Wicks, who has been teaching the sport at Camp Bold Eagle...

Fitness & Nutrition

Kogentate approved for hemophilia

FDA Approves Kogenate for Hemophilia Prophylaxis

It is now easier for physicians to prescribe and consumers to be reimbursed for a prophylactic treatment for hemophilia A...

Hemophilia A&B

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