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15 Minutes With: Sharon Malone Talks the Future of Menopause Care, Embracing Midlife and Health Tips from Michelle Obama
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Sharon Malone Talks the Future of Menopause Care, Embracing Midlife and Health Tips from Michelle ObamaSharon Malone, M.D., is the menopause whisperer. You may have heard her talking about all things perimenopause and menopause on Oprahโs podcast. Or Michelle Obamaโs podcast. Or your favorite morning show. Or her own podcast. But Malone doesnโt just talk the talk. As a board-certified OB-GYN and menopause practitioner, Malone has more than 30 years…
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15 Minutes With: Sateria Venable Talks Fibroids, Fertility and Fighting for a Cure
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Sateria Venable Talks Fibroids, Fertility and Fighting for a CurePainful periods. Flood-like flows. Uterine growths the size of a melon. We know this sounds like a bad premenstrual dream, but these are just a few of the life-altering symptoms associated with uterine fibroids. Sateria Venable knows firsthand how disruptive fibroids can be. Before she was founder and CEO of The Fibroid Foundation, Venable was…
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15 Minutes With: Sabrina Johnson Talks Treatment for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Sabrina Johnson Talks Treatment for Female Sexual Arousal DisorderOctober is Menopause Awareness Month. Youโve probably heard of a little blue pill called Viagra thatโs prescribed for men with erectile dysfunction. But can you name a treatment for sexual arousal disorder thatโs made for women? No? Despite the fact that as many as half of all women worldwide experience female sexual dysfunction, we rarely…
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15 Minutes With: Tamsen Fadal Talks Making Menopause Mainstream and the Perks of Midlife
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Tamsen Fadal Talks Making Menopause Mainstream and the Perks of MidlifeIn 2019, Emmy-award winning journalist Tamsen Fadal was on air, broadcasting the evening news, when her mind went blank. The word โsubpoenaโ was up on the teleprompter, but she couldnโt remember how to pronounce it. If youโve ever watched the news, you know โsubpoenaโ isnโt exactly an uncommon word. It wasnโt like Fadal to flub…
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15 Minutes With: Maneesha Ghiya Talks Femtech and the Future of Womenโs Healthcare
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Maneesha Ghiya Talks Femtech and the Future of Womenโs HealthcareWhen it comes to innovations in healthcare, Maneesha Ghiya means business. As a venture capitalist and investor at hedge funds, the Harvard Business grad has spent more than 25 years โ pretty much her entire career โ investing in healthcare. But when a medical emergency almost took her life, Ghiya saw firsthand the need for…
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15 Minutes With: Vonda Wright Talks Bone Health During Menopause and the Secret to Living a Long and Healthy Life
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Vonda Wright Talks Bone Health During Menopause and the Secret to Living a Long and Healthy LifeIf youโre not thinking about your musculoskeletal system, Vonda Wright, M.D., has a bone to pick with you. Or, rather, a new book you might want to read. As an orthopedic surgeon with more than 25 years of experience, Wright knows good bones and what it takes to keep them strong as we age. This…
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15 Minutes With: Isabelle Morley Talks โTherapy Speak,โ Love Bombing and What to Do if You Get the Ick
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Isabelle Morley Talks โTherapy Speak,โ Love Bombing and What to Do if You Get the IckGaslighting. Triggered. Boundaries. Youโve probably heard this trifecta on an episode of Love Is Blind or scrolled past at least one of the words on social media lately. You might even use them yourself. These days, โtherapy speak,โ or using clinical words and phrases in casual conversations, has become a mainstay in our culture. And…
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15 Minutes With: Sara Reardon, DPT, WCS, Talks About the Power of the Pelvic Floor and the Problem with How We Pee
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Sara Reardon, DPT, WCS, Talks About the Power of the Pelvic Floor and the Problem with How We PeeSara Reardon, aka โThe Vagina Whisperer,โ has been very vocal online about the importance of womenโs pelvic floor health since 2017. And with more than 680,000 followers and 13 million views on social media โ people are listening. โThe account has organically grown, and I think that’s a real testament to how much women really…
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15 Minutes With: Jennie Joseph, LM, CPM, Talks Midwifery, Maternal Health and Maternal Mortality in the U.S.
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Jennie Joseph, LM, CPM, Talks Midwifery, Maternal Health and Maternal Mortality in the U.S.Most teenagers wrestle with what they want to do when they grow up โ but not Jennie Joseph. โAll my teachers and advisors were saying I should be a secretary or a teacher โ and I said Iโm going to be a midwife,โ she recalled. โI barely knew what it was, but I knew it…
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15 Minutes With: Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, Talks Viruses, Vaccines and Avoiding the Bird Flu
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, Talks Viruses, Vaccines and Avoiding the Bird FluKatelyn Jetelina, PhD, MPH, is our type of public health professional. As an epidemiologist, she studies patterns and causes of disease in public health (e.g., Covid), and sheโs super passionate about sharing evidence-based information with anyone whoโs interested. Her free weekly newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist, breaks down complicated public health facts in a friendly, easy…
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15 Minutes With: Cindy Eckert Talks About the First FDA-Approved Pink Pill for Low Libido in Women
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Cindy Eckert Talks About the First FDA-Approved Pink Pill for Low Libido in WomenCindy Eckert is passionate about a lot of things. Near the top of her list is your sex drive. Eckert is the founder and CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals โ the company behind the first and only FDA-approved pill for female hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), or low sex drive. Eckert made history when the drug…
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15 Minutes With: Dr. Jennifer Ashton Talks About the Importance of Self-Care and Protecting Your Mental Health
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Dr. Jennifer Ashton Talks About the Importance of Self-Care and Protecting Your Mental HealthJennifer Ashton, M.D., is quite an accomplished woman. Sheโs an Emmy-award winning journalist who serves as the chief medical correspondent for ABC News and the co-host of GMA3: What You Need to Know (GMA3). Sheโs also a physician double board-certified in OB-GYN and obesity medicine, and she holds a masterโs degree in nutrition. Ashton has…
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15 minutes with, Ask the expert, Estrogen, Hormone health, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Menopause, Perimenopause, Reproductive health, Sex, Urinary tract infections, Vaginal health
15 Minutes With: Ashley Winter, M.D., Talks Urology, Sex and All Things Vaginas
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Ashley Winter, M.D., Talks Urology, Sex and All Things VaginasAshley Winter, M.D., is the chief medical officer at Odela Health and a urologist and sexual medicine specialist. She uses social media (primarily Twitter) to help clear up misconceptions about womenโs health and communicate the truth about all things vaginas. Winter was exceptionally generous with her time, and our โ15 minuteโ chat actually lasted an…
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Nieca Goldberg, M.D., Talks with HealthyWomen About the Go Red for Women Campaign and Why Itโs Been a Game-changer In Heart-Health Awareness
Read More: Nieca Goldberg, M.D., Talks with HealthyWomen About the Go Red for Women Campaign and Why Itโs Been a Game-changer In Heart-Health AwarenessEarly in her medical career, Nieca Goldberg, M.D., medical director of the Atria Institute in New York City, associate professor of medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and member of HealthyWomenโs Womenโs Health Advisory Council, realized that the healthcare field didnโt believe women could have heart problems. She decided to change that because so…
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15 Minutes With: Loretta C. โLeeโ Ford, Ed.D., Talks to HealthyWomen About the Nurse Practitioner Profession and Her Career
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Loretta C. โLeeโ Ford, Ed.D., Talks to HealthyWomen About the Nurse Practitioner Profession and Her CareerNovember 13 – 19, 2022 is National Nurse Practitioner Week. In the early 1960s, Loretta C. Ford, Ed.D., R.N., PNP, NP-C, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, realized that healthcare for families and children was suffering because there werenโt enough primary care doctors to treat them. So she took action. Ford partnered with Henry K. Silver, M.D., a…
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15 Minutes With: Kizzmekia S Corbett, Ph.D., Talks to HealthyWomen About Omicron
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Kizzmekia S Corbett, Ph.D., Talks to HealthyWomen About OmicronKizzmekia S Corbett, Ph.D, is a viral immunologist whose work focuses on propelling novel vaccine development for pandemic preparedness. She is a research fellow and the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and an assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvardโs T. H.…
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15 minutes with, Breast cancer, Breast cancer survivor, Breast health, caregiving, Hpv, Real women real stories, Vaccines
15 Minutes With: Jaclyn Smith Talks to HealthyWoman on the 20th Anniversary of Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Jaclyn Smith Talks to HealthyWoman on the 20th Anniversary of Her Breast Cancer DiagnosisJaclyn Smith, one of the original Charlieโs Angels, is an award-winning actress and entrepreneur who played Kelly Garret on the popular TV show for five years, among many other accomplishments. In 1985, Smith introduced a fashion line in K-Mart, becoming one of the first celebrities to develop her own brand. She has since gone on…
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15 minutes with, Access, Access to health care, Expert perspectives, Health disparities, Racial disparities, Racism
15 Minutes With: Dr. Neel Shah Talks to HealthyWomen About Racism in Healthcare
Read More: 15 Minutes With: Dr. Neel Shah Talks to HealthyWomen About Racism in HealthcareDr. Neel Shah is chief medical officer of Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and the founder of Costs of Care. Shah is featured in โThe Color of Care,โ an original documentary from Oprah Winfreyโs Harpo productions…
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Rick Bright Talks to HealthyWomen About Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
Read More: Rick Bright Talks to HealthyWomen About Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)Rick Bright, Ph.D., is an immunologist who has been working to address emerging infectious diseases for decades. Among his many accomplishments, Bright led and coordinated the U.S. and global medical countermeasure development for the 2014 MERS outbreak (another coronavirus). In 2020, Bright made headlines when he resigned from government service in protest over the Trump…
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15 minutes with, Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health insurance, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations, Vaccines
15 Minutes With Dr. Leana Wen
Read More: 15 Minutes With Dr. Leana WenDr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University who previously served as the health commissioner in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Wen is a familiar face on CNN, where she serves as a medical analyst, writes a weekly column in The Washington Post and hosts the Postโs newsletter, The Checkup…
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15 minutes with, Access, Clinical trials, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Health disparities, Hivaids, Lgbtq, Racial disparities, Research, Science, Vaccinations, Vaccines
15 Minutes With Phyllis Greenberger
Read More: 15 Minutes With Phyllis GreenbergerWe are honored to have Phyllis Greenberger on our team as senior vice president of policy, advocacy and science for HealthyWomen. A women’s health pioneer, Greenberger received the 2021 Perennial Hero Award from the Alliance for Aging Research in September. The award honors an older individual who is actively contributing to creating positive societal change…
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15 minutes with, Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Health care, Health insurance, Keep the care, Medicare, Medication safety, Opioid use disorder, Opioids, Otc medication safety, Preventive health, Reproductive rights, Women’s rights
15 Minutes With Congresswoman Debbie Dingell
Read More: 15 Minutes With Congresswoman Debbie DingellCongresswoman Debbie Dingell has long been an advocate for women and children. She is a founder and past chair of the National Women’s Health Resource Center and the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); successfully fought to have women included in federally funded health research; and advocated for greater awareness of issues…
