McCormick: Selfless women need to keep up with their own health
Jim McCormick
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Mother’s Day kicked off National Women’s Health Week, which was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office with the purpose of inspiring women to make their health a priority.
Historically, women have been the caretakers in our society and with the stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care practitioners have expressed their concerns for women who may have neglected their own physical and mental health over the past year.
The website, womenshealth.gov has a ton of useful information but I also decided to reach out to a couple of super women in our community to share their tips and suggestions for those on the health and fitness journey.
I was fairly surprised, shocked even, when I first learned that women or even female rodents were rarely used in the past for studies in health, even when researching the safety and efficacy of products for women like birth control pills. I discovered that anomaly when I became a member of a women s group called Access Circles, an organization of women formed to help promote access in all areas from business and medicine to the arts and geopolitics. I thought surely that must have been a misprint, but research proved it true. Since then I have joined the board of Women s Health Access Matters (WHAM!) to support its CEO s efforts to level the playing field in women s health matters. The CEO of both Access Circles and WHAM is Carolee. She will be speaking about this topic on a panel tomorrow in honor of National Women s Health Week.
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We know that nearly 80 percent of cardiac events can be prevented, yet many women don t have the awareness about this disease to understand and prevent their risk, said Angela Patterson, Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, MinuteClinic. That s why offering these free heart health screenings is so important, especially this year when so many people have put off care.
The screenings are part of the company s push to make preventative health care more accessible. As we celebrate moms and all the women in our lives this month, we want to make it easier for women to care for themselves and meet their health and wellness needs, said Eileen Howard Boone, Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility & Philanthropy and Chief Sustainability Officer for CVS Health.
On this National Women s Health week, there are some grim realities facing African American women. If you are unemployed and uninsured, you may not get the proper diagnostic testing that could save your life. That s what has happened to one Prince George s County, Maryland, woman.
On this National Women’s Health Week, there are some grim realities facing Black women.
If you are unemployed and uninsured, you may not get the proper diagnostic testing that could save your life. That’s what has happened to one Prince George’s County, Maryland, woman.
For a year, Florence Champagne went back and forth to a local emergency room with symptoms that included shortness of breath, a stabbing pain in her chest, jaw pain and pain radiating down her arm. Doctors couldn’t find anything.