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Q&A: Ashley Abel Is On a Mission to End Endometriosis
Read More: Q&A: Ashley Abel Is On a Mission to End EndometriosisMarch is Endometriosis Awareness Month. In 2022, Ashley Abel was working on her doctorate at Yale when she realized most of the studies she read involved mice. And the lab research she was doing on early embryos involved mice, too. No shade to lab mice, but they donโt menstruate. So, when considering endometrial conditions like…
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5 Amazing Things We Learned About Womenโs Health This Year
Read More: 5 Amazing Things We Learned About Womenโs Health This YearItโs the end of the year, peeps โ and what a year it was. Weโre locking in and bringing good energy into the new year, so now is a perfect time to reflect back on some of the HealthyWomen stories and important things we learned about womenโs health in 2025 that made us high-five the…
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Women: The Time to Act Is Now
Read More: Antimicrobial Resistance and Women: The Time to Act Is Now+ Flipbook text 1: Why is AMR a dangerous public health crisis? When you take medication for an infection, sometimes whatever is making you sick has been exposed to the medication enough that it has found a way to survive the drug.ย That process is antimicrobial resistance (AMR).ย Some parasites, viruses, bacteria and fungi are…
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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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Aprende mรกs, Autoimmune disease, Chronic conditions, Espanol, Lupus, Medical research and clinical trials, Research
Comprender las investigaciones de lupus
Read More: Comprender las investigaciones de lupusEnglish Aproximadamente 1.5 millones de personas en Estados Unidos tienen lupus, un trastorno que ocurre cuando el sistema inmunitario ataca รณrganos y tejidos saludables. De ellas, 9 de cada 10 son mujeres. El lupus es un trastorno complicado que puede ser difรญcil de diagnosticar e incluso mรกs difรญcil de tratar. Los cientรญficos estudian el lupus…
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Understanding Lupus Research
Read More: Understanding Lupus ResearchAbout 1.5 million people in the United States have lupus, a disease that happens when the immune system attacks healthy organs and tissues. Of these, 9 out of 10 are women. Lupus is a complicated disease that can be hard to diagnose and even harder to treat. Scientists are looking at lupus from many different…
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Biomarkers 101
Read More: Biomarkers 101If youโve ever been diagnosed with a health condition, a biomarker is at play, even if youโve never heard the word. Biomarkers help healthcare providers identify, monitor and determine risk for disease โ including heart disease, the leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Biomarkers also play a big role in the development…
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Meet 6 Black Women Who Changed Healthcare History
Read More: Meet 6 Black Women Who Changed Healthcare HistoryFebruary is Black History Month. Black women have made many inventions and discoveries that have improved public health and advanced technology. Thanks to the vision, determination and dedication of Black female scientists and inventors, healthcare providers can better identify, treat and even prevent potentially deadly health conditions. Technological achievements arenโt limited to Black women with…
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Rare Diseases 101
Read More: Rare Diseases 101February 28, 2025 is Rare Disease Day. By definition, โrareโ means uncommon. Unusual. Words you typically donโt think of when youโre thinking about your health. But living with a rare disease is a reality for a lot of people. Rare diseases affect 400 million people worldwide and 30 million people in the U.S. That means…
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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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The Promise of Prescription Digital Therapeutics
Read More: The Promise of Prescription Digital TherapeuticsIf youโre sick of hearing about all the ways technology is bad for us, hereโs some good news to consider: Prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) are among the latest digital health products helping to increase access to quality healthcare. PDTs and digital therapeutics in general are used to help prevent, treat and manage a range of…
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Should You Get a Blood Test for Alzheimerโs?
Read More: Should You Get a Blood Test for Alzheimerโs?June is Alzheimerโs and Brain Awareness Month. Alzheimerโs disease is ruthless. It can rob you of your memory, personality and the ability to do simple things like swallow or speak. Even scarier: Almost 2 out of 3 people with Alzheimerโs are women or people assigned female at birth. But thereโs good news in the screening…
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Gene & Cell Therapy 101
Read More: Gene & Cell Therapy 101Once the stuff of science fiction, gene and cell therapies are now saving and prolonging the lives of people with serious and fatal diseases. These cutting-edge treatments let doctors give patients a chance at a biological โdo-over.โ Cell therapies โresetโ patientsโ immune systems, while gene therapies change or delete genes that cause disease. Hereโs what…
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What You Need to Know About Gout
Read More: What You Need to Know About GoutMedically reviewed by Paula Tanasa, M.D. What is gout? Gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis that occurs when uric acid builds up in your blood and forms tiny, needle-shaped crystals that can deposit almost anywhere in the body, including in the joints, bones, heart, spine, kidney and eyes. These deposits can form visible lumps…
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Immunocompromised People and Covid-19 Clinical Trials
Read More: Immunocompromised People and Covid-19 Clinical Trials+ Infographic text If your immune system doesnโt work at full strength, youโre at higher risk for getting an infection or disease like Covid-19. It may not be your first thought to join a clinical trial that is studying new medicines or vaccines, but this type of research is key to protecting people who are…
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The White House Launched Its First-Ever Initiative on Womenโs Health Research
Read More: The White House Launched Its First-Ever Initiative on Womenโs Health ResearchThis Thanksgiving, HealthyWomen is grateful to President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gender Policy Council for launching the first-ever Initiative on Womenโs Health Research. At HealthyWomen, we know womenโs health is more than gynecological or reproductive health. It is the head-to-toe health of all women โ who represent more than half…
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Obesity Puts You at Higher Risk for Severe Illness from Covid-19
Read More: Obesity Puts You at Higher Risk for Severe Illness from Covid-19Anne Dixon, a lung specialist in Vermont, vividly remembers the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, recalling a particularly upsetting patient death. โWe had someone who was very young, had obesity and died from Covid. It was quite devastating,โ said Dixon, professor of medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center. It was a wake-up…
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I Was the First Living Kidney Donor with HIV
Read More: I Was the First Living Kidney Donor with HIVAs told to Erica Rimlinger Iโm living with HIV, and Iโm perfectly healthy. That statement would have sounded impossible to my childhood self. When I was 8 years old in 1991, I needed corrective eye surgery, and routine pre-op blood work revealed that I had HIV. It was not routine back then to test children…
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What You Need to Know About Clinical Trials
Read More: What You Need to Know About Clinical TrialsWhat are clinical trials? Clinical trials are studies of new treatments, procedures or behavioral interventions in people. The goal is to find out if a new treatment or prevention is safe and effective, or if itโs better than treatments or procedures we already have. Studies are also conducted to identify who might be most at…
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Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Read More: Preparing for the Next PandemicOver three years and more than 6.5 million deaths later, the Covid-19 pandemic is not over yet. As people around the world work to bring the current pandemic to an end, we must also ask ourselves: How do we prepare for the next one? Reframing the conversation around Covid In spite of the fact that…
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Understanding Monoclonal Antibodies
Read More: Understanding Monoclonal AntibodiesGretchen Klee Musa, 50, is a special education teacher in Wheaton, Illinois. Sheโs also a transplant recipient who has been taking immunosuppressants โ drugs that weaken the immune system โ to prevent her body from rejecting the transplant for more than seven years. โThey make it harder to fight infections such as Covid,โ Musa said,…
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New Hope in the Fight Against Alzheimerโs
Read More: New Hope in the Fight Against AlzheimerโsAs Krystal Allan watched Alzheimerโs disease ripple through her family, her own outlook on life changed. โOn my dadโs side, several relatives including my grandmother had Alzheimerโs,โ said Allan, an award-winning anchor with News 3 Las Vegas. โI saw firsthand what it was like โ for the patient and the caregivers.โ That family history led…
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Why Diversity in Clinical Trials Is Important
Read More: Why Diversity in Clinical Trials Is ImportantBy harming people of color and women more than other groups, the Covid-19 pandemic exposed a cruel reality: Factors such as gender, race and income can greatly affect access to healthcare, rates of disease, overall health and even life expectancy. A key to reducing such health disparities is making sure to include diverse groups of…
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Food Expiration Dates Donโt Have Much Science Behind Them โ a Food Safety Researcher Explains Another Way to Know Whatโs Too Old to Eat
Read More: Food Expiration Dates Donโt Have Much Science Behind Them โ a Food Safety Researcher Explains Another Way to Know Whatโs Too Old to EatBy Jill Roberts, University of South Florida Floridaโs outbreak of listeria has so far led to at least one death, 22 hospitalizations and an ice cream recall since January. Humans get sick with listeria infections, or listeriosis, from eating soil-contaminated food, undercooked meat or dairy products that are raw, or unpasteurized. Listeria can cause convulsions,…
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Medication safety, Online pharmacy, Opioids, Otc medication safety, Otc medicine safety, Prescription drugs, Research, Science
Dangerous Counterfeit Drugs Are Putting Millions of US Consumers at Risk, According to a New Study
Read More: Dangerous Counterfeit Drugs Are Putting Millions of US Consumers at Risk, According to a New StudyBy C. Michael White, University of Connecticut The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The Food and Drug Administration took 130 enforcement actions against counterfeit medication rings from 2016 through 2021, according to my new study published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Such actions might involve arrests,…
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Fishing, Strip Clubs and Golf: How Male-Focused Networking in Medicine Blocks Female Colleagues From Top Jobs
Read More: Fishing, Strip Clubs and Golf: How Male-Focused Networking in Medicine Blocks Female Colleagues From Top JobsBy Jennifer R. Grandis, University of California, San Francisco Women have been entering academic medicine at nearly the same rate as men for decades, but very few women reach the top levels of leadership. For example, as of April 2022, of the 71 U.S. cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute, only seven are…
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New Report Finds U.S. Women Have the Highest Rate of Maternal Deaths Among High-Income Countries
Read More: New Report Finds U.S. Women Have the Highest Rate of Maternal Deaths Among High-Income CountriesFrom The Commonwealth Fund The maternal mortality crisis in the United States has been well documented: U.S. women have the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income countries, while Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women are. But maternal deaths and complications may be a bellwether…
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Pollen Season Is Getting Longer and More Intense With Climate Change โ Hereโs What Allergy Sufferers Can Expect in the Future
Read More: Pollen Season Is Getting Longer and More Intense With Climate Change โ Hereโs What Allergy Sufferers Can Expect in the FutureBy Cones on a Norway Spruce in Virginia release pollen.Famartin/Wikimedia, CC BY-ND Pollen changes will vary by region We looked at 15 different pollen types, rather than treating all pollen the same as many past studies have. Typically, pollination starts with leafy deciduous trees in late winter and spring. Alder, birch and oak are the…
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How Medical Technology Is Changing Health Care
Read More: How Medical Technology Is Changing Health CareGrace Fernandez’s biggest fear is dying in her sleep. It’s a fear that could easily become a reality for the 33-year-old and the approximately 1.6 million other Americans living with Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone needed to allow sugar (glucose)…
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In Research Studies and in Real Life, Placebos Have a Powerful Healing Effect on the Body and Mind
Read More: In Research Studies and in Real Life, Placebos Have a Powerful Healing Effect on the Body and MindBy Elissa H. Patterson, University of Michigan and Hans Schroder, University of Michigan Did you ever feel your own shoulders relax when you saw a friend receive a shoulder massage? For those of you who said โyes,โ congratulations, your brain is using its power to create a โplacebo effect.โ For those who said โno,โ youโre…
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A Conversation With Nina Coslov About Perimenopause
Read More: A Conversation With Nina Coslov About PerimenopauseIn her early 40s, Nina Coslov started experiencing symptoms of perimenopause, but she was still having regular menstrual periods. When she couldnโt get answers from her healthcare providers, she co-founded Women Living Better, an organization dedicated to improving womenโs understanding of the path to menopause through research and education. She harnessed her science background to…
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How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic Diseases
Read More: How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic DiseasesBy DNA and mRNA vaccines are much better at producing T cells than are normal vaccines.NIAID/NIH via Flickr What makes nucleic acid vaccines different from traditional vaccines? Most vaccines induce antibody responses. Antibodies are the primary immune mechanism that blocks infections. As we began to study nucleic acid vaccines, we discovered that because these vaccines…
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The Truth About Vaccines
Read More: The Truth About VaccinesMedically reviewed by Mary Koslap-Petraco, DNP, PPCNP-BC, CPNP, FAANP To turn captions on, click the “CCโ icon.
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Whatโs the Difference Between Sugar, Other Natural Sweeteners and Artificial Sweeteners? A Food Chemist Explains Sweet Science
Read More: Whatโs the Difference Between Sugar, Other Natural Sweeteners and Artificial Sweeteners? A Food Chemist Explains Sweet ScienceBy Glucose is the simplest of sugars and is a circle of carbon atoms with oxygen and hydrogen atoms attached to the ring. A chemical in the stevia plant also produces sweet flavors. Chemists have developed a number of lab-made chemicals that taste sweet and are sold as no-sugar sweeteners.Evan Amos/WikimediaCommons Artificial sweeteners The third…
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Colorful Sweets May Look Tasty, but Some Researchers Question Whether Synthetic Dyes May Pose Health Risks to Your Colon and Rectum
Read More: Colorful Sweets May Look Tasty, but Some Researchers Question Whether Synthetic Dyes May Pose Health Risks to Your Colon and RectumBy Lorne J. Hofseth, University of South Carolina Early-onset colorectal cancer incidence among the young, defined as those under age 50, has been rising globally since the early 1990s. Rates for colon and rectal cancers are expected to increase by 90% and 124%, respectively, by 2030. One suspected reason behind this trend is increased global…
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Cรณmo los proveedores de atenciรณn mรฉdica y los pacientes pueden limitar la propagaciรณn de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos
Read More: Cรณmo los proveedores de atenciรณn mรฉdica y los pacientes pueden limitar la propagaciรณn de la resistencia a los antimicrobianosKorin Reid sabรญa sobre la resistencia a los antibiรณticos desde que era pequeรฑa. Desde los siete aรฑos, recuerda haber leรญdo sobre eso en uno de los libros de sus padres, asรญ que cuando contrajo su primera infecciรณn resistente a los antibiรณticos (una infecciรณn bacteriana que algunos antibiรณticos no pueden tratar), “estaba un poco molesta”, dijo…
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Health care professionals, Medication safety, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Preventive health, Research, Science
How Healthcare Providers and Patients Can Limit the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance
Read More: How Healthcare Providers and Patients Can Limit the Spread of Antimicrobial ResistanceKorin Reid had known about antibiotic resistance since early childhood. From as young as age seven, she recalls reading about it in one of her parents’ books, so when she got her first antibiotic-resistant infection (a bacterial infection that some antibiotics canโt treat), “I was kind of annoyed,โ said Reid, a data scientist and CEO…
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Foods High in Added Fats and Refined Carbs Are Like Cigarettes โ Addictive and Unhealthy
Read More: Foods High in Added Fats and Refined Carbs Are Like Cigarettes โ Addictive and UnhealthyBy Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan Every year millions of Americans try to cut down on ultra-processed foods โ industrial formulations that are typically high in added fat, refined carbohydrates or both. Think cookies, cakes, potato chips and pizza. For many, the desire to change what they eat is triggered by concerns about potentially life-threatening…
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Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
Read More: Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)Reviewed by Dr. Elizabeth Asiago-Reddy Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites found in humans, animals and plants. Antimicrobials include antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics. They have saved millions of lives and are one of history’s most important medical breakthroughs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes…
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Antimicrobial Resistance: An Emerging Public Health Threat
Read More: Antimicrobial Resistance: An Emerging Public Health ThreatMedically reviewed by Dr. Maria Isabel Roas Garcia
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Why Antimicrobial Resistance Is a Threat We Need to Take Seriously
Read More: Why Antimicrobial Resistance Is a Threat We Need to Take SeriouslyAccording to the CDC, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. each year, resulting in 35,000 deaths. Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a threat we need to take seriously, said Phyllis Arthur, vice president of Infectious Diseases & Emerging Science Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). We spoke to Arthur, who…
