Hear From Her: The Women in Healthcare Leadership Podcast Series Medscape

Rare diseases are often thought of as affecting one in 100,000 or one in 1,000,000 people, and that is true for some conditions. But there are many rare diseases that are more common. It may surprise many to learn that a condition that’s considered rare has a prevalence of 1 in 2000 or lower, and rare diseases overall affect more than 300 million people worldwide.
To learn more about rare diseases, visit Medscape’s Pathways in Rare Disease, https://www.medscape.org/sites/advances/rare-diseases, Medics for Rare Diseases, m4rd.org, or I am Number Seventeen at iamnumber17.org.uk 
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Of course social media has its downside. But online platforms are a powerful tool for women in medicine in terms of forming communities, fighting misinformation, amplifying one another, and galvanizing support for grassroots organizations to drive change.
Need help navigating social media? Here’s an online toolkit for health professionals.
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Patient advocacy organizations today are data-driven, doing amazing work — and have the hard evidence to support their impact on patient care. The challenge is getting past the perception of a group of people “bringing biscuits and cookies to the cancer clinic.”
To read Medscape's White Paper on patient-centricity in oncology care in collaboration with Lorna Warwick, CEO of the Lymphoma Coalition, click here.
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What should the future of women’s healthcare look like? Two renowned physicians say it involves a multidisciplinary, holistic approach, where a group of different specialists work together to provide a lifetime course of holistic primary and specialty care. 
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The purpose of The Lancet Commission: Women, Power, and Cancer was to draw attention to the global inequities that women face with respect to cancer care. The commission explored 3 areas of “power” (or lack thereof): decision-making, knowledge, and economics. They published their findings last September, along with 10 priority actions that must happen for women to obtain quality, respectful care across the cancer continuum.
To read the full report, click here.
To learn more about the commission, click here.
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According to a 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation report, 18% of all women in the U.S. ages 18 and older reported their health as fair or poor. Ten percent did not see a doctor due to cost. With about 168 million women in the U.S. those are some pretty staggering numbers. What needs to happen to improve women’s health—and their quality of life?
 
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