Wellness Too Little Sleep Can be Dangerous for Your Heart Health The many benefits of getting enough sleep every night are evident. Nevertheless, as a result…Kaili ValenzuelaMay 1, 2024
Research Overlooked and Underrepresented: Improving Women’s Cardiovascular Health Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in women present differently compared to men and have distinct warning signs.…Catherine DonohueApril 22, 2024
Wellness Heat Exposure Linked with Poor Outcomes for Pregnant People Despite attempts to improve maternal health in the United States, maternal mortality and morbidity rates…Vivian NguyenMarch 2, 2024
Wellness Isolation and Heart Health As the pandemic continues, more people worry about the long term effects of loneliness and…Ninava SharmaApril 12, 2022
Research Birth Control Can Reduce Type 2 Diabetes in Women with PCOS Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a hormonal disorder that affects at least 200,000 individuals…Kriti ShuklaFebruary 25, 2022
Research Irregular Periods Linked to COVID-19 Stress After many people on social media reported discrepancies in their menstrual cycles since the COVID-19…Aurbal PopalNovember 21, 2021
Public Health Gender Inequities in Aneurysm Screenings Two types of aneurysms are abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and cerebral (or brain) aneurysms. Brain…Jennifer HuynhMay 22, 2021
Public Health Premenopausal Weight Gain May Lower Breast Cancer Risk According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer is the most common cancer found in…Sally TrinhMay 19, 2020
Wellness DVT and Me: The Increased Risk on Birth Control Have you ever taken a medication knowing that there were a host of possible side…Natalie HirmezFebruary 6, 2020
Public Health Japanese Mothers Don’t Gain Enough Weight During Pregnancy In 2016, adult women over the age of 20 in the US were found to…Cath AshleyAugust 7, 2019
Public Health Menstrual Hygiene: A Global Health Challenge In 2018, Bollywood saw the release of Padman, a film based on the life of…Niathi KonaMarch 4, 2019
Public Health Vaginal Mesh Scandal: Who’s Problem is it? The vaginal mesh, as the name suggests, is a mesh made of usually synthetic polymers,…Vasundhara AcharyaApril 12, 2018
Public Health Pharmacists Can Prescribe Birth Control Too! Over the past few years, several states, including Oregon, California, Washington, and New Jersey, have…Nicole BarcegaMarch 17, 2018
Public Health PCOS: Tale of a Silent Killer Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), or Stein-Leventhal Syndrome, is a hormonal endocrine system disorder that affects almost…Angeline NguyenApril 16, 2017
Medicine How Sex and Gender Influence Medicine In her TEDx talk “Sex Matters in Emergency Medicine,” Dr. Alyson McGregor shares an astounding…Niathi KonaMarch 11, 2017
Public Health Closing the Gap: Discrepancies in Utilization of Preventative Care Screening programs can be highly effective tools in reducing the burden of certain illnesses within…Alexandra RuanDecember 29, 2015
Research First Period Linked to Heart Disease Risk in Women New research shows that the age at which a woman has her first period is…Karina KakNovember 16, 2015
Research Could America’s Coffee Addiction Be Saving Lives? According to the Huffington Post, Americans drink over 400 million cups of coffee per day.…Mimi ZhaoMarch 2, 2015