After an embarrassing experience buying a pregnancy test, Cythia Plotch saw how broken the space was and jumped on the opportunity to fix it. Partnering with her friend Jamie Norwood, the two co-founded Stix, a direct-to-consumer brand determined to ta…
According to a new study out of Harvard Medical School Thursday morning, there’s a factor that is exacerbating the existing gender-based pay gaps in healthcare: medical practices with more than 50% male physicians on staff.
Young Nicaraguan activist Natalia Norori is using her skills and experience in open health data to not only measure the true impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable groups, but also aiming at some point to measure the environmental, economical, and social sho…
Sustain has always sought to change the way we think about sex in the United States, tackling issues like the pleasure gap and access to birth control. But with its new, star-studded video campaign, the company is taking on its biggest challenge yet: A…
As Covid-19 spread through the country, many cancer patients feared their treatment would stop. Now, modifications made by hospitals, and patients’ choices to stay away from medical facilities because of the pandemic, could have a lasting impact on can…
His comment echoed a long-standing claim that goes back to the start of Planned Parenthood more than 100 years ago.
Women entrepreneurs have a better understanding of women’s health and they are using that knowledge to reshape healthcare for women.
Many people have been forced to postpone fertility treatments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant and new mothers have been under extraordinary stress. Two reproductive health experts weigh in on current and future issues given the ongoing circulati…
Amanda Elyssa Ruiz, a PhD student at Brown University, is looking for potential vaccines to protect against schistosomiasis, a disease that impacts over 250 million people every year, making it the second most socio-economically devastating parasitic d…
New research finds men are more likely than are women to be seen as “brilliant”.
