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WEBPerimenopause comes with a whole host of symptoms, like brain fog, low sex drive, poor energy, and loss of muscle mass. These symptoms can be extremely …

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What's Behind the Decline in Teen Mental Health

WEBIt is hard to escape the widespread discussion of declines in teen mental health. In the most recent CDC data, 40% of high school students indicated that, during …

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How To Healthily Express Your Emotions to Your Kids

WEBAny way you slice it, the U.S. maternal mortality rate doesn’t compare favorably to comparably developed countries. There are also huge inequities in mortality, with …

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Health Literacy and Equity

WEBI was a doula and health educator for about 10 years before deciding to raise venture capital and pivot into tech. And I think I spent a good amount of that …

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Trends in Health for Extremely Preterm Babies

WEBAny way you slice it, the U.S. maternal mortality rate doesn’t compare favorably to comparably developed countries. There are also huge inequities in …

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Is There a Link Between BMI and Health

WEBTo do this analysis, I pulled data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, or NHANES, which is a nationally representative survey that collects data on …

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Alcohol and Health

WEBIt is evident, even beyond this paper, that heavy alcohol consumption is associated with negative health consequences that are clearly causally associated with …

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What Does the Research Say on Weight Loss and Health

WEBThe best evidence for weight loss is in improving existing health concerns like prediabetes and diabetes. Those studies that do show a benefit of weight loss show …

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Black Maternal Health Is Maternal Health

WEBWe talk a lot in this newsletter about maternal health. It’s a topic I care deeply about as a researcher, writer, and parent. In working in this area, it is

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Mental Health After Birth

WEBAn estimated 10 to 15 percent of women who give birth will experience it. The data suggest that about half of these women actually experience the onset of …

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Black Maternal Health Is Maternal Health

WEBBlack Maternal Health Is Maternal Health . Birthing while Black—and my search for answers. Quantrilla Ard. Apr 11 2023 8 min Read. My journey to motherhood …

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Baby-Friendly Hospitals

WEBIn 1991 the World Health Organization and Unicef launched a program — the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) — that was designed to increase breastfeeding …

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Reproductive Hormones, From Puberty to Menopause

WEBThis is the longest phase of our reproductive lives — typically starting in our late teens and lasting all the way to our early 40s. This phase is marked by its physical …

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Health After Pregnancy Complications

WEBWe don’t fully understand the link, but we hypothesize that inflammation in the blood vessels can lead to pregnancy complications like preeclampsia and …

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New Guidance for Mastitis

WEBThe first is what we might call the “non-specific” or “obvious” part. This includes advice like “drink fluids and rest” (easy to say, harder to do with a baby), take …

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What We Know About Menopause in Black Women

WEBData from SWAN suggest that Black women have their last menstrual period on average 8.5 months earlier than white women do. When researchers controlled for …

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Are Hot Flushes Really Linked to Heart Problems

WEBHigh levels of CRP have been associated with increased inflammation throughout the body and an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Currently, there is …

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Is There Too Much Fluoride in Drinking Water

WEBFor reference, the World Health Organization states that a safe level of fluoride in drinking water is 1.0 mg/L. Although in a sense the two groups of studies look …

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Race, Values-based Care, and Advocating for Yourself

WEBI was a doula and health educator for about 10 years before deciding to raise venture capital and pivot into tech. And I think I spent a good amount of that …

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Where Does Data Come From

WEBBut this is only possible if our sample is representative of the whole population. The way the CDC actually gets these data on obesity (and on much other …

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More on Facebook and Mental Health

WEBThe worse mental health continues for more or less as far as they look (five semesters). These effects are in “standard deviations,” which makes them a bit difficult …

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Vitamins Are (Mostly) Pointless

WEBReason 2 for taking vitamins: You are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. During pregnancy, and before, prenatal vitamins are recommended. There are …

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