🙌🏼 Fempower Health: May 2, 2024

Celebrating Women's Health Month: Tailored Updates, Personal Stories, and Essential Resources on Women's Health

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Georgie Kovacs
May 02, 2024

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Good morning!

Exciting Update. As you know, Fempower Health covers all women’s health topics and while last year’s website overhaul helps you easily find what you need, I recognize you favor a few key topics. As a result, big plans are in place to focus on these topics and drive tailored communications to meet your specific needs. Please stick with us and stay tuned!

I’ve also decreased the newsletter frequency for now. For more timely updates, follow Fempower Health on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

This week:

🎧 It’s Women’s Health Month

This Women’s Health Month, I want to share a recent personal challenge—the Real Simple Half Marathon. Despite battling a fever, IT band syndrome, and menopause symptoms leading up to the race, I pushed through to the finish line. This experience reinforced my commitment to addressing the unique health challenges we, as women, face. At Fempower Health, we strive to understand and overcome these obstacles together. This month, let’s honor our collective resilience and the steps we take towards better health and understanding.

Real Simple Women’s Half, Central Park

🎧 This Week’s Health Beat: Most Frequent Health Complaint

Multiple women this week have approached me saying that “sex feels like razor blades.” To help you on this journey, I want to point you to two resources:

  • Learn about four possible root causes, which may more effectively help you monitor your body and explain what’s happening to your doctor

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🗞 Women’s Health News & Updates

  • The risk of depression in the menopausal stages: A systematic review and meta-analysis (PubMed) - Good timing! I’m about to conduct and interview on mental health and menopause!

  • Eldest Daughter Syndrome (NYTimes)

  • FDA Approves New Antibiotic for Uncomplicated UTIs (Medscape)

  • It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Check out Fempower Health’s resources.

  • ICYMI: Last week was National Infertility Awareness Week. Given my own struggles and those I’ve networked with, I’ve shared my story and insights on tools and resources to help those struggling. Tell a friend!

  • Book Launch: Brave Women at Work: Lessons in Leadership.

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Trivia Answer

Actress Courteney Cox was the first person to say “period” on American television in a 1985 ad for Tampax. Menstruation is part of life for more than half the world's population, and 800 million people menstruate daily. Thank you, Courteney for blazing the trail! (Post by Female Quotient on Twitter)

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The information shared by Fempower Health is not medical advice but for informational purposes to enable you to have more effective conversations with your doctor.  Always talk to your doctor before making health-related decisions. Additionally, the views expressed by the Fempower Health podcast guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.

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