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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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Ankle Surgery

When Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, shattered multiple bones in his right hind ankle two weeks after the race...

Surgery & Transplants

Two boys at Virginia hemophilia chapter event

Supportive Caregivers

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

Chapter Roundup

Older man with hemophilia

Older Men Need Bone Density Tests

In February 2008, the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) released its new “ Clinician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis.”...

Adults & Aging

Doctor and woman with von Willebrand disease

von Willebrand Disease Treatment Guidelines

In February 2008, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), one of the National Institutes of Health, released the...

Von Willebrand Disease

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)