Women's Bleeding Disorders

Preparing Your Daughter for Her First Period

Michigan attorney Mindy Buurma, 36, is the mother of four children under age 10. She has type III von Willebrand...

Family Matters, Women's Bleeding Disorders

If you’re a woman between the ages of 18 and 25 who lives in Wisconsin and has a Facebook account...

Chapter Roundup, Women's Bleeding Disorders

After she had her first child, a daughter, 18 years ago, Lisa Collins couldn’t stand or sit for more than...

Women's Health, Women's Bleeding Disorders

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which the Supreme Court upheld in June, has particular benefits for women, especially those who...

Women's Health, Women's Bleeding Disorders

When Michelle Cecil’s dad offered to send her to Europe in 2010, the Grafton, Wisconsin, teen hesitated. It would be...

Women's Health, Women's Bleeding Disorders

Women do have mild hemophilia, in spite of what most physicians were taught in medical school. In fact, the distinction...

Carriers, Women's Bleeding Disorders

It wasn’t raining, but Joi Heierling was drenched. While sitting across from a concerned parent trying to draft an education...

Women's Health, Women's Bleeding Disorders

Ryanne Radford had been getting an annual Pap test for about eight years without any complications. But after a Pap...

Generation Next, Adults & Aging, Mind & Body, Women's Health, Women's Bleeding Disorders

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered that von Willebrand factor (VWF), which helps the...

Von Willebrand Disease, Women's Health, Women's Bleeding Disorders

Discussing intimacy issues when you're a woman with a bleeding disorder.

More than 4,300 people from 106 countries gathered for the XXIX International Congress of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH)...

Global Focus, Women's Bleeding Disorders

National Hemophilia Foundation CEO Val D. Bias and New York City nightlife photographer Patrick McMullan called attention to women’s bleeding...

Von Willebrand Disease, Community in Action, Women's Bleeding Disorders