By the Perinatal Mental Health Project
By: Melissa Gradilla
Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Kamala…
By Jessicca Moore, MSN, FP
“You and your mom would have died.” I was breech, delivered by cesarean section…
By Dr. Jennifer Haythe
As a cardiologist who specializes in the care of women with heart disease, I am repeatedly confronted with one overwhelming truth — women do not know that cardiovascular disease is their #1 risk of death. The reasons for…
Last week, Mount Sinai West announced that their birthing center is scheduled to be shuttered in January 2019, after 22 years of providing quality maternity care. The closure of the…
A Conversation with Jayshree Satpute, Co-Founder of Nazdeek
“Women who are directly impacted should lead this work.”
The United States is facing a maternal health crisis. The rate of mothers dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth has nearly doubled in the last 25 years, making the US the only wealthy country where rates of maternal mortality are…
By Alexandra Sacks, M.D.
This week the UN released their annual report on the current state of refugees in the world. In 2017, 68.5 million people were forcibly displaced, 25.4 million of whom are refugees — people forced to flee…