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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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Ovarian Cysts: Normal or Not?

Ovarian Cysts: Normal or Not?

Jillian Vilardo was a sophomore in high school when she first experienced a painful ovarian cyst, a fluid-filled sac that...

Women's Bleeding Disorders

Megan Adediran and her children.

A Brighter Future for the Bleeding Disorders Community in Nigeria

Although my great-grandmother lost four sons to post-circumcision bleeding and my grandmother lost nine sons the same way, I’d never...

My Journey

4 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Support NHF

4 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Support NHF

For organizations such as the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF), fundraising is a way to raise awareness and much-needed funds for...

Community in Action

Ask a Social Worker: Questions About Co-Parenting After Divorce and Preparing for Aging

Ask a Social Worker: Questions About Co-Parenting After Divorce and Preparing for Aging

Ask a Social Worker is a monthly column featuring questions from the community and answers from members of NHF’s Social...

Adults & Aging, Ask a Social Worker

Need Information about Bleeding Disorders?

Contact The Neil Frick Resource Center (NFRC)