Lack of Healthcare Limits Women’s Choices
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The BCRA would take us back to a time when people could be forced to choose their health over their hearts.
maternity leave
U.S. Maternity Leave Policies Aren’t Just Inadequate, They’re Unequal Too
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A recent study found that women who take maternity leave tend to be college educated, white and married. This injustice became clear to Kristin Budde one night after seeing one of her pregnant patients.
Women's Health
U.S. Congresswomen Push for Menstruation with Dignity for Women, Girls
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We don’t hear about the challenges of managing menstruation as much in the U.S., but they do exist. A set of bills introduced this year to the U.S. Congress is trying to improve access to menstrual hygiene products and information.
Maternal Health
To Curb Maternal Death, U.S. Hospitals Urged to Weigh Bleeding Pads
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Getting hospitals to stop estimating blood loss and start quantifying it—going from “EBL to QBL”–is now a major goal of an effort to reduce postpartum hemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal death that disproportionately afflicts black women.
Incarceration
Let’s Stop States from Shackling Female Prisoners in Childbirth
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Most of the women who are being subjected to this degrading and dangerous practice have already undergone enough trauma. We need the help of Congress and the Department of Justice to stop this “birthing barbarism” in the 28 states that still allow shackling at some or all points from the second trimester through postpartum recovery.
Maternal Health
Could ‘Birth Budgets’ Help U.S. Women Navigate Coverage Gaps?
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A U.K. proposal sounds like a Mother’s Day present for U.S. women looking for more maternity care choices from their private insurance. It could also help tackle poor birth outcomes in the U.S., particularly among black women.
Women's Health
This Heart Doctor Wants to Clear Up Confusion About HRT
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Dr. Howard Hodis just finished talking about this at a major annual conference on women’s health. He says HRT has definite cardiac benefits as long as it starts soon after menopause, before heart health begins to decline with age.
Maternal Health
Congressional Briefing Puts U.S. Maternity on Exam Table
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“There’s been a huge collapse of the health system in rural areas,” one doctor said. “I still have patients that don’t have a car or live so far out that they don’t have access to a bus system.”
Breast Cancer
After Surviving Breast Cancer, the Lights Go Way Down
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There are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. and 58 percent of us suffer PTSD as a result of our illness. But who knows this? It’s strange that with millions of women involved, survivors’ complications are often underground.
Heart Disease
Latina Cardiologist Responds to Call from Women in the Bronx
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As director of outreach cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Julie Ramos remembers where she came from. “My mom did not have a job other than as a cleaning lady,” says Ramos. And her mother’s English was limited.