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As COVID-19 Vaccine Manufactures Race to the Finish Line, Ensuring Diverse Participation, Safety and Ethics in Clinical Trials is Essential
By: M. Isabelle Chaudry Deep Dive ArticlesIn order to engage BIPOC in clinical trials, companies and our government both need to espouse and engage in values, ethics, and practices that protect human lives; recognize and respond to the challenges that impact participation; and earn the trust of rightfully suspicious potential trial participants.
The National Women’s Health Network Speaks Out on Ongoing National Events
By: Evita Almassi Deep Dive Articles, Press ReleasesThe National Women’s Health Network is compelled to speak out about ongoing events as a long-time consumer health watchdog with a mission to serve as a trusted health information source for women in all their diversities. Because of our commitment to science and health justice, we are dismayed and angered over recent events, including the inability of top FDA and CDC officials to make decisions free from interference. …
Women appear to be less susceptible to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. But even as women face less risk from the disease itself, they face much more risk from the social and economic devastation that the disease has wreaked, highlighting the deep inequalities in our economic, social, and health care systems.
Young Feminist: Reclaiming My Femininity
By: Sophia Harrison The Women's Health Activist Newsletter, Young Feminist Deep Dive ArticlesFor me, female empowerment means less about comparing myself to women in the media and more about finding inspiration in the women around me, whether that may be my peers, friends, or even national leaders.
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My “Baby Friendly” Hospital Harmed My Baby: How Hospitals Can Do Better
By: Sarah Christopherson ,Birth, Breast Health, Breastfeeding, Hospitals Deep Dive ArticlesGood information isn't always enough to overcome bad systems.
How Medication Abortion Changes the Narrative of Self-Managed Abortions
By: Tessa Ruff ,Abortion, Abortion Pill, Medication Abortion, Mifeprex, Mifepristone Deep Dive ArticlesWriting for Jezebel last year, Dr. Meera Shah described just a few of the many reasons why pregnant people might prefer self-managed (or self-induced) abortion to an abortion performed in a clinic.
How you can fight the spread of rightwing propaganda and misinformation
2018 Midterm Election Recap
By: Sarah Christopherson ,Health Care Reform Deep Dive ArticlesHealth care voters were the deciding factor in the elections, but our work is far from over.
Keep Passing on the Pink Pill: DON’T “Get Addyi Now”!
By: Abby Miller and Susan K. Flinn ,Addyi, Flibanserin, Sex Drugs for Women, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesWhat do you do when your product isn’t popular and sales have slumped? Gin up an advertising campaign to convince consumers that they absolutely have to have what you’re selling.
Instagram Influencers & the New Obsession with All-Natural: How Companies Sell Food, Exercise, and Now Even Contraceptive Methods as a New Way of Life
By: Tessa Ruff ,Apps, Birth Control, Natural Cycles Deep Dive ArticlesMy peers and I have access to more information about our bodies and our health than ever before, encouraging us to take care of ourselves and make well-informed decisions.
Rx for Change: The ABCs of Hospice and Palliative Care
By: Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,End of Life, End of Life Care, Older Women, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesAn 83-year- old woman dies on a ventilator in the ICU. She’s been hospitalized for five of the last six months of her life. A 57-year-old woman with recurrent metastatic breast cancer develops cancer-related fluid inside her chest cavity. She...
Riding the Crimson Wave
By: Lily O'Connor Coates ,Gynecological Health, Menstrual Period, Period Warriors, Pink Tax, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesI don’t know about you, but I very clearly remember the first time I learned about my body in grade school. It was fifth grade and all of us girls were separated from the boys and brought into a classroom...
Getting an IUD: How One Size Does Not Fit All
By: Tessa Ruff ,Birth Control, Intrauterine Device (IUD), Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) Deep Dive ArticlesIn college, getting a long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) was in vogue. It seemed like everywhere I went, women were talking about how their IUD had changed their life for the better.
Women’s Health in the Climate of Democracy in Chains
By: Nancy Worcester and Mariamne Whatley ,Health Care Reform, Rx for Change Deep Dive ArticlesWhat happened? What’s happening? What can we do about it?