While women continue to outlive men in the U.S. in terms of life expectancy, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed continued healthcare access, physical and mental health disparities, and economic inequities for women in America. I addressed the changing state of post-pandemic women’s health in my latest contribution to the Medecision Liberation blog. This first graphic illustrates… Read More »
Millions of women in America and around the world face different issues in their daily lives. Some of the issues are from when they were kids while some came along the way when they were adults. Whichever the case, such women need a safe space to talk about it and get help from professionals. It… Read More »
As our faculty at the Center for Women’s Mental Health (CWMH) have gone fully remote with respect to clinical and research activity, we have managed to stay connected these last three weeks with “virtual rounds”. For over 25 years, our group has met on Wednesdays at midday to discuss clinical cases we have seen across… Read More »
Over the past three weeks, we have been so fortunate to have hosted ‘virtual rounds’ on Wednesday afternoons for our colleagues in the field of reproductive psychiatry and women’s mental health. We have discussed the impact of COVID19 on delivery of care and the experiences of our patients, in addition to advances in psychopharmacology and… Read More »
I am sure that the absolute majority of the fair sex will make the right choice. There are no contraindications in music therapy, so listening to classical music, such as Prelude No. Music therapy lowers blood pressure, as the heart can beat in sync with the right piece. The adverse effects of these four factors… Read More »