Bixby News

Meet Purba Chatterjee, connector working to decolonize global health

May 18, 2022
Serving as an HIV counselor in San Francisco at the height of the HIV epidemic helped Purba Chatterjee connect with her calling. Since growing up in India, she had always been interested in health but didn’t quite know how to make it a career. After taking a course on the biology of AIDS as an...

Clinics’ challenges providing birth control during the pandemic

May 11, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers have worked to balance patients’ access to health services with public health. While professional and public health organizations agreed that contraception is an essential service, providers also had to respond to social distancing mandates,...

Almost half of US ob-gyn residents won’t get abortion training if Roe v. Wade is overturned

April 28, 2022
By the end of June, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a direct challenge to the right to abortion protected by Roe v. Wade. If Roe is overturned, 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion.

Lifting FDA regulations could help family doctors provide medication abortion

April 20, 2022
In 2000, the Federal Drug Administration approved mifepristone for medication abortion. Many advocates hoped that the availability of the drug would allow primary care clinicians to integrate abortion services in their practices. However, more than 20 years later, most abortions still take place in...

Prenatal care is crucial to preventing congenital syphilis

April 13, 2022
Congenital syphilis—syphilis that is passed to a fetus while someone is pregnant—is increasing in the United States. If it goes untreated, it can lead to stillbirth, preterm birth and physical and neurological deficits. Treatment is effective almost 100% of the time when it’s given according to the...

Toward abolition medicine

April 06, 2022
Bixby members Monica Hahn, MD, and Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, contributed to the AMA Journal of Ethics issue Toward Abolition Medicine. Issue editor Osagie K. Obasogie writes about the need to center equity, inclusion and belonging, and that the journal issue “provides an opportunity to continue the...

Asking more questions leads to higher accuracy in self-assessment of pregnancy duration

March 22, 2022
ANSIRH set out to find out if more or different questions about the timing of the pregnancy could reduce uncertainty and therefore reduce the need for in-person testing.

Global work to improve birth outcomes could help reduce racial disparities in the U.S.

March 10, 2022
Originally posted at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences The maternal mortality rate in the United States exceeds that of any other developed country and it increased significantly in 2020, according to a new analysis. Outcomes are particularly troubling for Black women, who face a risk...

Young women in Africa want choice in HIV prevention

February 25, 2022
Nearly all adolescent girls and young women in a new study accepted one of two HIV prevention products they were offered. The young women were given a choice of a monthly vaginal ring or daily medication, and only 2% turned down both.

Risk factors for dual burden of severe maternal health problems and preterm birth vary by insurance type

February 15, 2022
Insurance coverage is a major contributor to health disparities, with big differences in health among people without insurance and different kinds of insurance. Even within the same facility, insurance type is an important factor in quality of care. It’s especially critical for people giving birth...

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