Cervical cancer used to be one of the top causes of cancer for women in this country. But over the past decade, rates have declined....
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Yesterday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced a bill, the Uterine Fibroids Research and Education Act, to provide funding for research and education on uterine fibroids....
After months of asserting pregnant women were not at high risk for the coronavirus, the CDC recently released a study with sobering findings for expectant...
Serena Williams and Beyoncé are at the top of their professions. Williams is one of the best tennis players, and arguably athletes, of all time....
Portia Smith’s most vivid memories of her daughter’s first year are of tears. Not the baby’s. Her own. “I would just hold her and cry...
Twenty years ago, working at the bedside in a maternity ward, Hakima Tafunzi Payne saw first-hand how poorly black women were often treated. “People didn’t...
Uterine fibroids are common. At least two-thirds of all women will experience them at some point in their lifetime, with approximately 80 percent of black...
Recent research suggests that black women suffer these benign growths in silence Fibroids, benign tumors found in the wall of a woman’s uterus, can grow...
Endometriosis, often dismissed as just painful periods or part of a woman’s active imagination, is a serious condition. It can cause debilitating pain that interferes...
It’s happening. Political pundits and American voters who saw Trump’s frightening campaign promises as lofty talk will soon feel the consequences of the legislation we...