February 2011
4 posts
Saving Mothers: notes from the field
This week, we have a guest post from Jessica Oliveira, the Funding Chair for Saving Mothers and the Project Coordinator for a recent Saving Mothers team venture to Guatemala. Jessica is a Ob-Gyn Physician Assistant at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and traveled to Lago Atitlan, Guatemala with a team of three other physicians and midwives to provide support and education to local...
Text-to-Mom Healthcare
Last week, a friend drew my attention to an article in the New York Times I thought I’d share in my blog post today. The article is about a service called text4baby, a program that sends text messages to pregnant women or women with children under 1 year to give regular tips on prenatal care or child care. Women simply send a text with the subject “baby” to 511411 and are then...
H.R. 217 and the Fate of Planned Parenthood
There has been a good deal of heated discussion these past few weeks over Rep. Mike Pence’s recent bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood. The H.R. 217 Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act was introduced in early January and would prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performas abortions. Apparently Pence was motivated, at least in part, but the results of...
Obesity and Maternal Health in the USA
A few months ago, I read an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled “Plus-Size Wars.” The article was largely focused on a discussion of the growing number of overweight or obese women in America and how the garment/fashion industry has responded (or failed to respond) to this pool of women. A few figures struck me: that 64% of American women are overweight and that the...
