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Why Real-World Learnings Matter for People with Breast Cancer
When people understand basic concepts about their health, they’re better able to make more informed decisions. That’s why we are working to improve health literacy, clarify the language that we use around health topics, and return clinical trials data to participants.A breast cancer diagnosis is life-changing; many people facing this diagnosis look to gather as much information about their prognosis and treatment options as possible. We know it’s not enough for us to simply develop breakthrough...
Working with Partners to Improve Access to Migraine Care
Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder impacting over a billion people worldwide. At Pfizer, we’re dedicated to understanding the causes of migraine. With that goal in mind, we’ve put together a series of articles exploring different aspects of migraine management.In our first post, we looked at the current state of migraine care, reflecting on what’s working and where there’s room to improve. In the next post, we examined some of the challenges that can prevent people from accessing...
Migraine's Underrated Pain—The Barriers to Treatment
Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder impacting over a billion people worldwide. At Pfizer, we’re dedicated to understanding the causes of migraine. With that goal in mind, we’ve put together a series of articles exploring different aspects of migraine management.In our first post, we looked at the current state of migraine care, reflecting on what’s working and where there’s room to improve. Then we examined some of the challenges that can prevent people from accessing the prescribed...
The Migraine Treatment Access Problem
Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder impacting over a billion people worldwide. At Pfizer, we’re dedicated to understanding the causes of migraine. With that goal in mind, we’ve put together a series of articles exploring different aspects of migraine management.In our first post, we looked at the current state of migraine care, reflecting on what’s working and where there’s room to improveToday, we’re discussing one of the biggest roadblocks to treatment for the condition: access.Fo...
The Reality of Living with Migraine
Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder impacting over a billion people worldwide. At Pfizer, we’re dedicated to understanding the causes of migraine. With that goal in mind, we’ve put together a series of articles exploring different aspects of migraine management.This week, we’re focusing on who the condition impacts, what it’s like to live with migraine, and the challenges and obstacles to accessing care.Migraine is a serious neurological disorder that is not merely a strong headache...
Gender Differences in Coping with Migraine
Imagine having a condition that impacts your everyday life and realizing your gender could shape your experience and approach to managing it. This is the reality for many with migraine, as revealed in a recent episode of the National Headache Foundation (NHF) InSights podcast hosted by Pfizer.The episode delves into an NHF survey of 1,001 people with migraine that examined the impact of the condition on people's lives. The findings highlight the debilitating nature of migraine, including the...
Maternal Immunization: Protecting Children from RSV and GBS
In the first few months of their lives, infants experience new sights, sounds, scents, and textures. During this time, they also make contact with new organisms. It takes up to three months for portions of infants’ still-developing immune systems to mature.1 During these early weeks and months, infants are too young to receive their first vaccines, leaving them vulnerable to developing serious infections.2Most pregnant people transmit antibodies to their developing fetuses naturally starting in...
Getting the Facts About Some Common Pregnancy Complications
Many mothers envision having an uneventful pregnancy with little to no symptoms and the delivery of a healthy, full-term baby. Thankfully, most pregnancies and deliveries go on without a hitch. However, for some expectant mothers, health problems do occur. The good news is that only 8% of pregnancies involve complications. These complications can involve the mother, baby or both. Even women who were healthy prior to getting pregnant can have complications. Though not all complications can be...
What Do You Really Know About Metastatic Breast Cancer?
As a public health initiative, breast cancer awareness has been generally successful. Patients, families, physicians, and advocates have worked diligently to make the disease better understood and synonymous with strength, survivorship and scientific breakthrough. With improved screening efforts and increasing numbers of available therapies, breast cancer is often discovered and treated in early-stage; as a result, a steady increase has occurred over the past 30 years in survival rates for...
Taking Medication During Pregnancy
The reality is that some women get sick and are diagnosed with serious diseases during pregnancy. Or they may have a chronic illness that needs to be managed while pregnant. Sometimes making the decision whether to take medication during pregnancy is not so easy. It is difficult to study new medications in pregnant women, and even more difficult to assess the effects of medication on the developing fetus. Pregnant women are considered a vulnerable group by regulatory agencies and ethics...
Breast Cancer in the Workplace
Except for some kinds of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1 in 8 (12%) women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. Though possibly due to earlier detection and improved treatments, there is a slight decline in death from breast cancer in recent decades. Currently, there are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.With increased detection and survivorship, many...
Lupus and Pregnancy: What You Need to Know
There was a time when women were told that pregnancy was impossible if they had lupus. While all lupus pregnancies are still considered high risk, advances in medical technology and in our understanding of the disease have made it possible for women with lupus to have successful pregnancies. But there are a few things to keep in mind. Remember, lupus is an autoimmune disease. When a person has an autoimmune disease, his or her body’s immune system can’t tell the difference between harmful...
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