Mental Health: The Hidden Illness Plaguing Minority Communities
05.13.16
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being and impacts how we think, what we feel, and how we…
In Opioid Addiction, Both Babies and Their Mothers Deserve Care
05.11.16
Every 19 minutes, an infant is born in the U.S. who will suffer from opiate withdrawal.
The Society for Women’s Health Research Talks Revolutionizing Healthcare & Research Through Data at Annual Gala Dinner
05.10.16
SWHR held its annual black-tie gala May 4, 2016, this time to discuss the growing trend of big data and…
12 Percent of People Will Be Diagnosed With This Life-Threatening Heart Disease
04.21.16
The prevalence of aortic stenosis is as high as 12 percent among those 75 and older, and because women generally…
We Don’t Need a Zika Czar. We Need a Women’s Health Czar.
04.01.16
Pregnant women are more susceptible to infectious disease than the general public. Yet a dearth of research leaves them and…
Outcomes from SWHR’s Multi-stakeholder Workshop on Achieving Meaningful Subgroup Data in Clinical Trials Released
03.30.16
SWHR released the outputs of its two-day workshop “Achieving Meaningful Subgroup Data in Clinical Trial Design and Development: Scientific Approaches…
Afraid of Colonoscopies? Alternative Noninvasive Tests Are Available but Inaccessible
03.29.16
Aversion to colonoscopies is incredibly common and is preventing many women — who are at high risk for colorectal cancer…
SWHR Thanks House Appropriators for NIH Support
03.18.16
SWHR thanks the House Appropriators for their continued support of the National Institutes of Health.
Not Just a Man’s Disease
03.16.16
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in women behind lung and breast -- and not just among the…