If you thought fintech was cool, wait until you hear about femtech: cutting-edge, high-tech ob/gyn treatment. Originally devised as a way to keep patients and physicians safe during COVID, femtech will eventually bring first-rate OB/GYN care to women in developing countries. In just under a year since its opening, the ARC Innovation Center at Sheba…
By Ellen Hershkin “Self-care” is the buzzword of the moment for women, but what does it really mean when women’s health disparities in America have elicited a growing alarm among the public, and policymakers? Women need real tools to help navigate their own health, from education, to apps to community resources. But the burden and…
The numbers are sobering. In Multnomah County, more than half of adults are overweight or obese and at risk for chronic conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, stroke and high blood pressure. The costs of obesity – both the personal health costs and the shared financial costs – are staggering. According to the…
Felicia Cohen was born in Maryland and raised in an Orthodox home in Hollywood, FL, where there was a large, thriving Jewish community. She went to Jewish day school and the family walked to their Sephardic synagogue. Oregon, never mind Grants Pass, was not on her radar screen. Felicia’s father was a businessman and mom…
Response one: “If I’m healthy and have a good diet and exercise regularly, I can stay fertile past 40. I keep reading about women having babies after 40, why not me?” Fact: A woman’s fertility has already started into mild decline by her late 20s. It declines more sharply in her late 30s. Between 40…
The Oregon Public Health Genetics program has received a grant to educate members of the Jewish community about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and their potential for increased risk of developing those cancers. “This program worked on education materials, contracted with a geneticist from OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University) to create a presentation and training targeted…
Lynda Falkenstein: “Ignorance is definitely not bliss” In 2000 Dr. Lynda Falkenstein was diagnosed with breast cancer as her mother was dying of ovarian cancer 25 years after she survived breast cancer. Knowing that a long list of relatives had died from ovarian cancer, Falkenstein says she realized “my cancer could not be random ……
Cancer patients frequently complain of overwhelming fatigue during treatment. For decades, the medical community recommended patients save their strength and rest during the course of treatment. But when personal trainer Laura Rosencrantz watched her active grandfather Leonard Schnitzer grow weaker each day as he succumbed to lung cancer, she started to question that conventional wisdom….
