1.24.22 | Policy
SWHR Statement on Bipartisan Effort to Address the Needs of Pregnant and Lactating Women
SWHR released a statement in response to a January 2022 bipartisan congressional letter to HHS Secretary Becerra on pregnant and lactating women.
1.19.22 | Fertility
Chronic Pelvic Pain: Hope for a Solution
The team at Society of Interventional Radiology shared information about the role of interventional radiology to aid women suffering from chronic pelvic pain.
1.14.22 | Genetic Screening
Genetic Screening Roadmap Aims to Assist Clinicians in Education, Conversation
The Genetic Screening Roadmap aims to assist maternal health clinicians in framing and providing genetic screening for women.
1.14.22 | Eye Health
Eye Health Patient Toolkit Aims to Help Women’s Vision as They Age
The Guide to Women’s Eye Health is a patient toolkit to assist individuals, particularly women, in better managing their eye health.
12.20.21 | Policy
An Insider Perspective: End-of-Year Focus Areas for the House Energy and Commerce Committee
The chief health counsel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee spoke at SWHR’s Policy Advisory Council meeting on Committee plans for the upcoming year.
12.20.21 | Eye Health
A Vision for Women’s Eye Health: Addressing Gaps in Treatment, Education, and Policy for Women Across the Lifespan
A group of eye health clinical researchers, health care providers, patients and patient advocates, and policy leaders met to highlight knowledge gaps and unmet needs that could improve eye health outcomes in women.
12.15.21 | Fertility
Infertility and Women’s Health Conditions: The Physician Who May be Able to Help
The team at Society of Interventional Radiology explains how an interventional radiologist (IR) may help some women who are facing infertility or other life-altering conditions of the pelvis, such as uterine fibroids.
12.9.21 | Maternal Health
Supporting New Moms in the Fight Against Postpartum Depression
SWHR spoke with Taiwo Ajao, MPH, RN, IBCLC CD (DONA) a maternal-newborn nurse, lactation consultant and doula, and Jenifer LaNore, MSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C, a trained full-spectrum doula (DTI) and owner of Gracefully Balanced Perinatal Counseling, LLC, on postpartum depression.
12.8.21 | HPV
New Paper Sheds Light on HPV-Related Cancers Landscape
SWHR captured insights from a closed roundtable meeting and a public forum on HPV-related disease prevention, in a new Journal of Women’s Health article, “Gaps and Opportunities to Improve Prevention of Human Papillomavirus-Related Cancers.”
