Tag: women’s health

The Society For Women’s Health Research Announces “Beyond The Bruises” Campaign Highlighting The Effects Of Domestic Violence On Chronic Disease

  • May 28, 2015
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The press release below was issued May 27 by the Society for Women’s Health Research and can be seen here. The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR ®), a national non-profit and thought leader in research on sex differences in health and disease, today announced “Beyond the Bruises,” an online campaign uniting survivors, advocates, organizations, and celebrities in bringing awareness to the effects of domestic violence on chronic disease.  The campaign features a short film that shares the stories of domestic violence survivors who struggle with chronic disease as a result of their abuse, as well as the website BeyondtheBruises.org, a resource center that houses information on the often unrecognized effects of domestic violence on chronic illness. A 2013 study conducted by MORE Magazine and

Feeling Grey About Fifty Shades

  • May 5, 2015
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The following post originally ran on Huffington Post Women on April 16th and can be seen here. The author is Aimee Gallagher, MPH, MS the Scientific Program Manager at the Society for Women’s Health Research. The much-anticipated release of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie and its novel series precursor struck chords of concern among women’s health advocates. While the book sold over 100 million copies worldwide and has been heralded as an erotic romance novel that is sexually liberating, the nature of the protagonists’ relationship is troubling because of its multiple aspects of domestic violence. Domestic violence affects approximately one in three women [1]. Stalking, manipulation, intimidation, and rape all are forms of domestic violence and abuse. Anastasia Steele, the lead character in