Weekly Health Digest: Intense Walking, Egg Freezing, and Natural Wine
Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: the health benefits of intense walking, the reality of freezing your eggs, and the “natural” wine phenomena
Modern Fertility: The Science of Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an increasingly common method of achieving a pregnancy, but it poses scientific challenges and emotional demands.
Telling Health’s Story | Why We Need the Expansion of Paid Maternity Leave Policies
In HLTH 385W: Health Writing and Narratives, created by Maryn McKenna, CSHH student Defne Levine writes an op-ed piece on the need for expansion of paid maternity leave policies.
Commercial Surrogacy in India: A Bioethical Debate
By India Ciánna Stevenson Commercial surrogacy in India is a controversial topic of debate in bioethics. India’s attempts to regulate and control commercial surrogacy struggles to find a balance between two conflicting interests: preventing the exploitation of surrogates and protecting…
Babies and Antibodies: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Affects Fetuses
By: Dynasti deGouville On December 11, 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine became the first of its kind available under the FDA’S emergency use authorization for those 16 years and older. Since then, 180 million Americans have gotten one or both…
COVID Chronicles | Pandemic Pregnancies: The COVID-19 Birth Experience
The pregnancy experience shifted rapidly during the pandemic, with new and soon-to-be mothers asking questions about delivery, breastfeeding and coronavirus safety measures around newborns. This episode highlights three different perspectives to bring a well-rounded view of what it means to be pregnant or delivering babies during a global pandemic.
Pregnant People’s Paradox
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Adaora Yvonne Ntukogu Including pregnant women in research is very risky. Pregnant women are especially vulnerable, so their participation in clinical trials could result in pregnancy complications that could harm the unborn…
Weekly Health Digest: COVID-19 Orphans, Handwashing Decline, Vaccines & Pregnant Women, & the Gender Vaccine Gap
A summary of important health news from the past week. The Shadow Orphan Crisis of COVID-19 An article recently published in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that more than 40,000 children in the United States have lost a parent to Covid-19. That…
Women’s Health and Women’s Rights Lay the Foundations for Health of Current and Future Generations
In honor of International Women’s Day 2021 By: Tessa Roseboom, PhD In every corner of the world, women are more often exposed to violence, do more unpaid work, and earn less money. Also, women have poorer access to food, healthcare,…
Health Beyond the Blog: NATAL Podcast
NATAL is a podcast docuseries about having a baby in the United States while being Black. Season 1 of the podcast consists of 14 episodes, giving Black parents a spotlight to tell their stories about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care.…