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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.

doctor examining older woman's eyes 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.”

12.2.21 | Vaccines
SWHR’s Vaccine Roadmap Guides Communities in Vaccination Conversations

To assist community program planners, organizations, and agencies as they develop immunization education outreach programs, SWHR launched its Crucial Vaccination Conversations: A Roadmap to Engage Women and Their Communities.

11.29.21 | Uterine Fibroids
SWHR’s Uterine Fibroids Toolkit Empowers Patients to Live Well with Fibroids

TheUterine Fibroids Toolkit: A Patient Empowerment Guide was created to provide easy-to-understand information, resources, and tips to assist individuals of all ages with uterine fibroids to navigate their care.