6.4.24 | PCOS
Promoting Shared Decision-Making in PCOS Management
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common hormone disorder occurring during a woman’s reproductive years that causes an excess of […]
6.4.24 | Fertility
Bridging the Infertility Care Gap
Infertility is clinically defined as the inability to achieve pregnancy after one year of intercourse without birth control or when an individual has had two or more failed pregnancies.
4.11.24 | Women's Health Perspective
Lindsey Howard’s Endometriosis Journey
I was diagnosed with endometriosis after laparoscopic surgery to remove two very large endometriomas in the winter of 2018. I consider myself lucky that I had physical evidence on my ultrasound of the pain I was enduring before, during, and after my period.
3.19.24 | Research and Clinical Trials
SWHR Emerging Scholars in Women’s Health Research Award Symposium
The SWHR Emerging Scholars in Women’s Health Research Award is given to trainees whose abstracts submitted to the OSSD Annual Meeting demonstrate research excellence in addressing important knowledge gaps in health and disease areas that disproportionately, differently, or exclusively affect women.
10.30.23 | Endometriosis
Rewriting Endometriosis Education for Providers and Policymakers
In this secondary blog, SWHR shares highlights from the interdisciplinary working group roundtable discussion held about endometriosis, in September 2023.
10.30.23 | Endometriosis
Illuminating the Endometriosis Experience to Improve Care
SWHR convened an interdisciplinary working group of health care providers, researchers, patients and patient advocates, and health care policy leaders for a roundtable discussion on endometriosis.
9.19.23 | Endometriosis
What to Know about PCOS this PCOS Awareness Month
Polycystic ovary syndrome, commonly referred to as PCOS, is an endocrine disorder that affects the balance of reproductive hormones and affects an estimated 5 million women in the United States.
7.31.23 | Endometriosis
Elucidating Endometriosis: Persistent Gaps in Research & Care
Endometriosis is a chronic gynecological disease that affects more than 200 million women worldwide. Endometrial lesions tend to form in […]
6.29.23 | Fertility
A Focus on Mental Health and Infertility in Women
For Infertility Awareness Month, and in every month moving forward, SWHR is working to advance research, policy, and education on infertility and improve the lives of those affected.
