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Preventing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
-Improving women’s health before, during, and after pregnancy is the focus of a special issue of the peer-reviewed
Journal of Women’s Health. The issue brings together a broad range of research topics and perspectives on addressing and preventing maternal morbidity and mortality. Click here to read the article now.
“The high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States are alarming and constitute a public health crisis as up to 60% of these deaths are preventable. As the primary government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research, the National Institutes of Health invests a large amount of its budget in maternal health. Together with other federal agencies, scientists from the research and academic institutes, we hope to shed more light on this public health problem and offer some directions for the future”, states Guest Editor Samia Noursi, PhD, Associate Director of Science Poli
CDC Committed to Omit Medical Barriers to Contraception Use by Angela Mohan on January 13, 2021 at 12:14 PM
The CDC has updated the recommendations for contraceptive usage based on new evidence. It has collaborated with national partners to implement the guidelines and has conducted surveys of health care providers to assess changes in attitudes and practices around contraception safety and provision.
The CDC is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of its U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC), with an exclusive article published in the peer-reviewed
Journal of Women s Health. While the recommendations include necessary restrictions based on evidence, most contraceptive methods can be safely used by most people, even those with medical conditions, state Kathryn Curtis, PhD, and coauthors from the CDC.
Study examines sex differences in the cause of death after stroke
Women were 39% more likely to die by 1 year after a first stroke. The sex difference was due to advanced age and more severe strokes in women, according to a new study in the
Journal of Women s Health.
Among women and men with a first-ever stroke, women were approximately 7 years older. In addition, 9.3% fewer women could walk independently on admission to the hospital, suggestive of a more severe stroke.
Among those deceased by any cause, men had more deaths due to cancer (12% vs women 6%) and ischemic heart disease (8% vs women 6%) while women had more deaths attributed to stroke (50% vs men 41%) or other cardiovascular disease (16% vs men 13%).
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New Rochelle, NY, December 22, 2020 Women were 39% more likely to die by 1 year after a first stroke. The sex difference was due to advanced age and more severe strokes in women, according to a new study in the
Journal of Women s Health. Click here to read the article now.
Among women and men with a first-ever stroke, women were approximately 7 years older. In addition, 9.3% fewer women could walk independently on admission to the hospital, suggestive of a more severe stroke.
Minority women and women in general aged 50-64 in Pennsylvania showed an increased proportion of early-stage breast cancer diagnosis since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).