Health Beyond the Blog: Why It Costs $15,000 to Freeze Your Eggs
A new documentary explores the ethical and financial implications of oocyte preservation – egg freezing.
Health Beyond the Blog: Period. End of Sentence
In the documentary "Period. End of Sentence," women in a rural Indian village combat menstruation stigma by learning to make and distribute their own sanitary pads, against male opposition.
Health Beyond The Blog: NATAL, the podcast
photo by Tembinkosi Sikupela, Unsplash The racial disparities in pregnancy and birthing experiences in the US is an urgent and important issue, one that needs to be explored beyond the statistics and numbers. NATAL, a narrative podcast about having a…
Telling Health’s Story | Undermining Reproductive Health and the Lives of Black Mothers
In HLTH 385W: Health Writing and Narratives, created by Maryn McKenna, CSHH student Mikahla Gay writes a news feature piece on racism and injustice, more specifically tackling the topic of undermining reproductive health and the lives of black mothers.
The Tumors that Science Ignores
By: Adaora Yvonne Ntukogu What are Uterine Fibroids? Do you know a disease that up to 70 percent of women will get in their lifetime, a disease whose cause remains mysterious? Uterine fibroids are muscular tumors, usually non cancerous, that…