Healthcare Practices
Washington, DC – April 11, 2024 – On April 10, one day before the start of Black Maternal Health Week, the Preeclampsia Foundation in partnership with Thermo Fisher Diagnostics held a Hill Briefing – “Putting Pressure on Mater...
Advocate Shakima Tozay discusses the Black maternal health crisis and how we can improve outcomes for BIWOC patients with preeclampsia.
The Preeclampsia Foundation announced today that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded new funding for its MoMMA’s Voices program, a national coalition of patient advocacy organizations and individuals with "lived experience" –...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released today a final recommendation statement on screening for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The Task Force recommends that all pregnant people have their blood pressure measured throughout pr...
Abt Associates, together with subcontractors HealthBegins and the MoMMA’s Voices program of the Preeclampsia Foundation, will provide technical assistance and evaluation support to 36 HRSA-supported health centers who are implementing innovative appr...
Recommendations for high-risk expecting parents and health care providers to promote the prevention of preeclampsia, a leading cause of pregnancy-related death in the United States.
Education Manager Maggie Barker recaps the 2022 Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health Conference.
The Preeclampsia Foundation announced that its Cuff Kit™ program is a Phase 1 winner of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women’s Health (OWH) Hypertension Innovator Award Competition.
Preeclampsia puts women at increased risk for heart disease as well as stroke and high blood pressure later in life. Large population studies have demonstrated that two of three preeclampsia survivors will die of heart disease. That’s news to m...
The Preeclampsia Foundation, a patient advocacy organization for those affected by high blood pressure in pregnancy, is partnering with Shaconna Haley to present a special webinar on Wed. Dec. 1, 2021 at 1 pm for doulas on their role to support and e...
On Jan. 25-26, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) and the Preeclampsia Foundation will bring together leading national and international clinicians and researchers for an in-depth look at how to better predict, prevent, and manage preecla...
The Preeclampsia Foundation is urgently calling for the development of biomarker tests for simple, rapid, and accurate diagnosis and prediction of preeclampsia, a life-threatening hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. This call-to-action statement reco...