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Articles by Phyllis Greenberger
Why Women Are Twice As Likely To Struggle With Depression & Anxiety
Image by Alex Tan / Death to the Stock Photo May 14, 2026 We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. Depression and its cousin anxiety are far more common in women than men.
Women Are 2x As Likely To Experience Anxiety & Depression - Here's Why
Image by Alex Tan / Death to the Stock Photo October 22, 2024 We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. Depression and its cousin anxiety are far more common in women than men.
When It Comes to Medicine, ‘Women Are Not Small Men’
Welcome everyone. I’m Dr. John White. I’m the chief medical officer at WebMD. Does your biologic sex impact your health? Does it have any play in how you’re diagnosed, how you’re treated in terms of what symptoms you have? Of course it does. We all know that. But that’s not something that many people believed 5, 10 years ago, certainly not 20 years ago. And it was only because of leaders like my guest today, Phyllis Greenberger, who really championed the need for research on women’s health.
Sex Cells: A Scientific Argument for Equitable Research on Women
For millennia, the diagnosis for almost every female complaint — from chronic pain to digestive woes, palpitations, fainting, headaches, and aching joints — was singular and it was “hysteria” (from the Greek word for uterus). It was believed for far too long that strenuous activity — physical or mental — would enflame the ovaries and uterus and imperil a female’s delicate constitution.
Sex Cells: The Fight To Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women’s Healthcare
. Apr. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9798887700205. $26.99. HEALTH COPY ISBN Award-winning researcher Greenberger, the SVP of science and health policy for HealthyWomen, focuses in this book (cowritten with Kalia Doner) on women and how many medical and scientific professionals are failing them. She stresses that a person’s biological sex affects both their health and quality of health care.
Women Are 2x As Likely To Experience Anxiety & Depression-Here's Why
Image by Alex Tan / Death to the Stock Photo April 05, 2024 We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. Depression and its cousin anxiety are far more common in women than men.
Painting Gave Me a Precious World All My Own While Caregiving for My Husband with Alzheimer’s Disease
As told to Nicole Audrey Spector I knew my husband, Bob, had Alzheimer’s disease before anyone else did, including Bob. He was only 65 years old, but he had some of the telltale symptoms, including forgetfulness and absentmindedness, which were highly unusual for him. Bob was whip smart and incredibly high-functioning, a former journalist. But the bills, which he handled, and which we had the means to pay, were starting to pile up. Something was wrong.
Comparative Effectiveness Research: What a Difference an X Should Make
With all the chatter and perhaps now "twitter" about healthcare reform, one area has gotten a lot of attention and it is an issue that is near and dear to the Society for Women’s Health Research - that is comparative effectiveness research (CER).
COVID-19 Scams: Not Even Masks Can Protect Us From This Danger
After a year of living under the cloud of COVID-19, there's finally hope on the horizon, thanks to a new administration and the emergence of several additional effective vaccines. However, the vaccine rollout hasn't gone as smoothly as we would have hoped.
COVID-19 and the Growing Importance of Diverse Participation in Clinical Trials
If the COVID-19 pandemic has given us any silver lining, it's that it has greatly influenced the way our medical society approaches studies and clinical trials. While the worldwide crisis has undoubtedly caused devastation on levels most of us haven't experienced before, it has sparked a recognition of the importance of gender and ethnic diversity in medical research.
How do clinical trials work?
If the COVID-19 pandemic has given us any silver lining, it's that it has greatly influenced the way our medical society approaches studies and clinical trials. While the worldwide crisis has undoubtedly caused devastation on levels most of us haven't experienced before, it has sparked a recognition of the importance of gender and ethnic diversity in medical research.
Watch Your Mouth: Don’t Forget Your Dental Health During the Pandemic
As we navigate a web of ever-changing information about COVID-19, it's essential to keep up with your health management. This includes preventive and ongoing care for previously diagnosed conditions. Yet, one area that some people are steering clear of throughout the pandemic is their dental health, and that needs to change. The American Dental Association states that dental care should continue during COVID-19 and that services can be delivered safely.
Counterfeit Medicines Kill People
Have you ever had a hard time getting a prescription filled? Or maybe you've had to wrestle with your insurance provider to get them to pay for a medication vital for your health? Worse, maybe you're one of the 27.5 million uninsured Americans who find it difficult to get health care, let alone obtain the prescription drugs you may need. If you've had any of these experiences, then perhaps you've turned to the internet to buy medications that would require a prescription.
The Biden Administration Needs to Wage War Against Antimicrobial Resistance Starting on Day One
Trillions of microscopic bacteria, viruses and fungi live on our skin, in our mouths, in our guts and throughout our bodies. Most of them are harmless and some are beneficial, but a handful of them are pathogenic, meaning they produce diseases or infections.
How can we fight the problem?
Trillions of microscopic bacteria, viruses and fungi live on our skin, in our mouths, in our guts and throughout our bodies. Most of them are harmless and some are beneficial, but a handful of them are pathogenic, meaning they produce diseases or infections.
Some Unfinished Business for This Congress: Pass the Donut Hole Fix in the Medicare Part D Program | HealthyWomen
Share on: November 27, 2018 Now that the midterm elections are over, the 115th Congress returns to Washington to attend to important unfinished business during its brief year-end “lame duck” session. Besides passing appropriations bills that will keep the federal government open, high on Congress’s “to-do” list must be to fix the impending “out-of-pocket cliff” for the Medicare Part D prescription drug program that could severely harm 44 million Americans. Why must Congress act now?
From shadowing to sundowning: saying a long goodbye to my spouse
I just needed to go to the bathroom. But even those few minutes of privacy were impossible. When I went into my closet, the bathroom or upstairs, my husband would get upset and call for me. I couldn’t be out of his sight. As his mind descended into Alzheimer’s, in many ways I became his life raft, the one place he knew he was safe. But that also meant “shadowing,” where he would follow me everywhere, even to the bathroom. It was upsetting, disturbing and exhausting to never have a minute to myself.
Prevention Is Power for Minority Women's Health
To ensure that American families and communities continue to prosper, the health and well-being of all women and their families must be a priority. Health care disparities between racial or ethnic groups for such basic health measures as birth outcomes, death rates from cancers, HIV infections and prevalence of high blood pressure and diabetes are unacceptable.
Nicotine and Women's Health—FDA's Initiative Signals Progress | HealthyWomen
Thank you, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for recently restating a commitment to reducing tobacco use, particularly among children, by taking a closer look at flavors that are added to both tobacco (for smoking or chewing) and to the liquid nicotine formulas used in vaping devices. FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb noted that, "The thought of any child starting down a path of a lifelong addiction to tobacco, which could ultimately lead to their death, is unacceptable.
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Phyllis Greenberger and Barbara Beckert work at Disability Rights Wisconsin, a group that provides advocacy for people with disabilities in the state.
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