Black Maternal Health Awareness Week is wrapping up. What do we need to know about Black Maternal Health? During pregnancy, childbirth, or the first 42 days after delivery of a living child, Black people are dying at almost three times the rate (CDC, 2021) as white people. More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable Read more…
Preeclampsia and other severe pregnancy complications, especially among Black people, have thankfully been getting more attention in the media in the last couple of weeks. These individual stories are so important because they humanize what can sometimes become numbing statistics. And they are highlighting some of the significant health disparities in the U.S. that Black Read more…
Risk factors and symptoms of CVD can be different for women. Estrogen plays an important role in risk for CVD. Besides chest pain, women may have subtle symptoms such as heartburn, nausea, milder discomfort in the chest, back and abdomen or a sensation of generalized weakness. **Nerds, for the purpose of this article, “women” refers Read more…
Sólo 40% de personas embarazadas en los EE.UU. han sido vacunadas contra COVID-19 desde el primero de enero de 2022. Desafortunadamente, esta tasa baja de vacunación tiene consecuencias trágicas. 💥 La vacunación durante el embarazo es segura. No hay ninguna conexión con el aborto espontáneo ni la infertilidad. 💥 La vacunación durante el embarazo protege Read more…
R: No existe evidencia científica que sugiera que las vacunas contra COVID-19 tengan un impacto negativo en la fertilidad en hombres o mujeres. Si bien, las vacunas no se probaron entre personas embarazadas para la autorización inicial de uso de emergencia de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en Read more…
A: Preliminary data presented to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are reassuring. Pregnant persons who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines did not have increased risk of side effects from the vaccines or bad outcomes (like preeclampsia, miscarriage, preterm birth, neonatal death, or congenital anomalies). More studies and safety monitoring are ongoing, but Read more…
