Women’s Care Center Focuses On Culturally Competent Healthcare By Marilyn Parker JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Providing culturally competent quality healthcare to all – that’s the goal of Life Tree Women Care, a clinic that just opened this week on Jacksonville’s westside. The founders are husband and wife and they’ve been working towards this for more than 20 years. They say it’s…
Meet The Nigerian Woman Tackling The Genetic Basis Of Cancer By Andrew Wight Nigerian researcher Professor Olufunmilayo Olopade has worked for decades in the search for the genetic basis of breast cancer, now she is teaming up with an African startup to sequence populations that are under-represented in the medical literature. Professor Olopade, a V Foundation Scientific Advisory committee member, and dean…
By Lauren Reddiex Women account for just 11 per cent of consultant surgeons in Australia and New Zealand. The road to becoming a specialist is far from easy, with years of extensive study and long days of hospital-based training. When you’re in the business of saving lives, work-life balance can be an elusive luxury. To celebrate International Women’s Day, we spoke to five…
While we are in quarantine, it can be helpful to learn about the science behind the mutation and spreading of COVID-19.
Written by Joon Yun, MD, the president of Palo Alto Investors and coauthor of the book Essays on Inclusive Stakeholding for Worth.com. All opinions are reserved to the author. The world is caught in the vortex of the coronavirus story. So what happens from here? I don’t know, and no one else does either. That said, my intuition—based on the temporal and spatial…
By Sarah Newey Condoms, implants and the pill are among the contraceptives being rapidly embraced by women and girls in Africa, according to a major report tracking family planning in developing countries. Since 2012 roughly 53 million women and girls have started to use modern forms of family planning in 69 of the poorest countries across the globe. It means…