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HLTH Foundation and Break into the Boardroom (BiB) Partner on Diversity Initiative Focused on Driving Gender Parity on Boards of Healthcare Companies

HLTH Foundation and Break into the Boardroom (BiB) are teaming up and have just announced their new initiative “Get on Board”. The goal of the program is to help forward-looking investors access the highest caliber of talented women in the healthcare industry, to enhance their portfolio board diversity and performance. The program is funded by HLTH Foundation and free of charge for…

Launched: GLISSANT, A New Line of Modern, Natural Lubricants Created by a Female Pelvic Surgeon

As a physician specializing in female pelvic medicine at Cedars-Sinai, one of the country’s leading research hospitals, Dr. Karyn Eilber often heard patients say they avoided sexual activity due to pain and vaginal dryness. Women frequently asked for a natural, non-irritating lubricant without hormones or harsh chemicals, yet there was nothing on the market she could confidently recommend. Frustrated by the lack…

Springboard’s ‘Health Innovation Hub: Life Science’ Is Now Accepting Applications

Springboard’s Health Innovation Hub: Life Science is a program for women-led life science and healthcare companies seeking growth funding and connections to experts and strategic partners for product development and expansion. Selected Hub companies are matched with a personal advisory team, tasked with providing a meaningful impact on the company’s next stage of growth. The program, while virtual, engages advisors and investors…

Amerigroup Iowa Announces Expanded Benefits for Medicaid Members Including Products for New Moms

Amerigroup Iowa announced its value added benefits portfolio for eligible Medicaid members who participate in the state’s Medicaid programs that began January 1, 2021. Included in the expanded offerings are electric breast pumps for pregnant women or women who recently delivered, and a new Healthy Rewards incentive program. Amerigroup is the first Medicaid health plan in Iowa to provide electric breast pumps…

Lululemon’s Global Wellbeing Report: Only 29% of Respondents Indicate Strong Wellbeing, with Gen Z Ranking Lowest Among Generations

Activewear brand lululemon today released its first ever Global Wellbeing Report, advancing the company’s commitment to advocate for wellbeing—enabling holistic wellbeing through movement, mindfulness, and connection. The 10-country study benchmarks the state of wellbeing with the inaugural Global Wellbeing Index issued by lululemon, and explores the dimensions, drivers, and barriers to being well. “The events of the past year brought unprecedented challenges to…

Moon Mother Hemp Founder Jessica Bates: “I didn’t see anything on the market that spoke specifically to the needs of women and vaginal health.”

Women-founded luxury CBD brand Moon Mother Hemp has created a new way to support sexual and vaginal health and a safe and pleasurable way in which to bring CBD into the bedroom. Intimacy Oil is a rapidly emerging category in the hot CBD marketplace. Moon Mother Hemp has created a lubricant, that’s pure and expertly curated. Its ethically sourced ingredients are intentionally blended…

Maternal Health: AI/ML’s Health Gauge Shares Results of a Successful Proof of Concept Study Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

AI/ML Innovations, a company focused on acquiring and furthering Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technologies that address urgent societal needs, announces that its subsidiary, Health Gauge, successfully displayed its proof-of-concept deployment in a study funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, further validating its technology. Health Gauge was invited in 2019 to participate, as the sole technology provider, in a Bill and Melinda…

Merck Announces the Second Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities Organizations Committed to Improving Maternal Health Equity in the U.S.

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects across the country — expanding its Safer Childbirth Cities initiative to additional communities that have a high burden of maternal mortality and morbidity to help improve maternal health outcomes and reduce racial inequities in care. The newly selected projects…