Let’s Talk FemTech: Empowering Women and Disrupting Digital Health
Currently, a sector of the tech industry is revolutionizing women’s specific and unique healthcare issues – FemTech. As it grows and women technologists consider their career options, joining this exciting field can merge the passion and commitment for tech and women’s health equity, adding to a more inclusive and progressive future in the space.
Racial gap widens in maternal mortality around time of childbirth
Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday.
Latinx Files: Fertility care and embracing ancestral holistic medicine
I was sitting in a glowing hot pink room lined with white leather thrones. On each seat was a hole topped with a toilet seat. I sat on one, bare as a plucked chicken, and felt a gentle fog from a heated pot of herbs as my nether regions were being steamed like a pork dumpling.
Dr Demian Glujovsky
Dr. Glujovsky, a reproductive endocrinologist in infertility, is the Director of Fertility Argentina, the international patients unit at CEGYR (Center of Studies in Genetics and Reproduction) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.