Just six weeks ago, Jim Yong Kim, MD, president of the World Bank, tweeted out a photo of top leaders of the World Health Organization …
Tag: women’s health
First Women Leaders in Global Health conference comes to Stanford
This Thursday, hundreds of women from around the world will gather here for the inaugural Women Leaders in Global Health conference, designed to highlight the …
Stanford researchers refine bacterial signature associated with premature birth
Two years ago, a Stanford team discovered that women who deliver their babies prematurely have a different community of vaginal bacteria during pregnancy than women …
Waiting to transfer embryos results in more pregnancies for some IVF patients
Undergoing in vitro fertilization can be a long, stressful process for women who want to become pregnant. The outcome of each step is uncertain: Will …
How California reversed the national trend of rising maternal mortality
In the last 10 years, U.S. mothers have been dying in childbirth at shocking rates: Compared to other developed countries, three times as many U.S. …
Stanford health researcher wins prize for using statistics to prevent rapes in Kenya
Mike Baiocchi, PhD, grew up in a family of nurses and passionate public health advocates. He says a liberal can-do attitude was baked into his …
Simply Streisand: On matters of the heart
By any measure, Barbra Streisand is an entertainer without peer. She has sold more albums in the U.S. than any other female recording artist. She’s won …
A comic about birth control educates patients — and providers
Growing up in India, Aparna Sridhar, MD, devoured comics like Tintin and Asterix. And as a gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Sridhar spends …
Reflecting on the importance of Planned Parenthood
As Congress considers the GOP’s American Health Care Act, there are likely many people out there who don’t know that the proposed legislation calls for the defunding …
Gender parity in global health events: A conversation
In honor of International Women’s Day, the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health teamed up with partners at Women in Global Health and the Global …
Latest ban on U.S. global funding ignores science, Stanford researchers say
In a new commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, two Stanford scientists make a case for lifting the ban on U.S. aid to …
Health experts urge FDA to lift restriction on abortion pill
Women in the United States are often unable to get ready, affordable access to mifepristone, a drug used to induce abortion, because of burdensome federal …
The current state of women’s health in the United States? Uncertain
I had no idea that before the Affordable Care Act was enacted into law some insurance companies considered pregnancy a pre-existing condition, effectively denying women …
Women “undertested” for breast cancer mutations, say researchers
Genetic testing to uncover the existence of breast and ovarian cancer-associated mutations like BRCA1 and 2 can help a woman with cancer understand her risk …
Fertility treatment for cancer patients: Should insurers pay?
As reported recently by Kaiser Health News, a growing chorus of cancer patients, physicians, politicians and health non-profits are calling for insurers to pay for …
New ban on U.S. aid to family planning groups could have unintended consequences
The Trump administration’s reinstatement of a policy that bans U.S. foreign aid to agencies that provide abortion counseling abroad was a predictable move that could …