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Adams Administration Holds First Ever Women’s Health Summit to Take Next Step in Making New York Cit
March 30, 2023 Adams Administration Convenes About 100 Gurus to Generate New York City’s Women’s Wellbeing Agenda Adhering to Mayor Adams’ Assure In the course of January Deal with New York – The Adams administration now hosted the very first at any time Women’s Wellbeing Summit at Hunter University, convening far more than 100 industry experts throughout sectors to form New York City’s very first ‘Women’s Overall health Agenda,’ set to be launched this summer season. The summit follows a citywide deal with New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams sent in January, where he, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom, and other folks – each inside of…
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The story of the Jada for new mothers shows how bias holds back women’s health
As she prepared her medical-device startup for a make-or-break clinical trial, one of Anne Morrissey’s first thoughts was, There’s no way we can do this clinical trial. There were the usual challenges that test any health care startup, including financial worries—did they have enough money to hire a team, train staff, compensate investigators, gather sufficient data? But there were also some uniquely convoluted ones. Like: When and how could they get informed consent from patients on the verge of giving birth? It was 2016, and Morrissey was the new CEO of Alydia Health, a five-year-old company with a novel device, known as the Jada System, to treat postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), or excessive bleeding…