wellness
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This Women’s History Month, we center the leadership of Black women in the movement for health equity because their history, their bodies, and their lives are at the heart of our most urgent work. That work begins with truth-telling. History credits Dr. J. Marion Sims as the “father of gynecology,” but that narrative erases the…
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Scientists at the University of Oxford, funded by Cancer Research UK, are researching OvarianVax, a vaccine which teaches the immune system to recognize and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer. If the research is successful, work will then begin on clinical trials of the vaccine. Ovarian cancer is the fifth-leading cause of cancer death…
