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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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College student with hemophilia

Off to College with a Bleeding Disorder

Rachel Miller, 21, who has von Willebrand disease, attended two years of community college and lived at home before enrolling...

Generation Next, Family Matters

Paddle Power

Paddle Power

Renee Embry has a platelet dysfunction and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, but that doesn’t stop her from getting out on the water.

Fitness & Nutrition

Woman with birth control patch

Birth Control Patch Risk

In January 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved changes to the label of the Ortho Evra ®...

Von Willebrand Disease

Blood samples

HIV Thrives on Human Host Proteins

In February 2008, researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) identified 273 human proteins that...

HIV

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Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)