Legislative Advocacy
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...
To support Black Maternal Health Caucus’s bills on maternal mortality and morbidity, called the Momnibus. A collection of nine bills to address racial disparities in maternal health.
In an opinion piece in The Hill (5/7), Rakhi Dimino, MD, a Houston-based obstetrician who serves on the Preeclampsia Foundation’s Board of Directors, writes that findings from two recent studies “add to a growing body of evidenc...
Preeclampsia Foundation signs bipartisan letter asking House leaders to include funding for a key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) program that helps identify emerging threats to mothers and babies.
This is a great day for preeclampsia and the beginning of the end of needless deaths. Late last night, President Trump signed into law the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act. We are very proud and incredibly thankful! This legislation will directly impac...
The Preeclampsia Foundation commends the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health for holding the hearing, “Better Data and Better Outcomes: Reducing Maternal Mortality in the U.S.,” on Thursda...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 26, 2018 – Today the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed the Maternal Health Accountability Act (S1112). Introduced by Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV...
May 9, 2017 - Melbourne, FL - Nearly 76,000 mothers and 500,000 babies worldwide lose their lives to preeclampsia and related hypertensive disorders of pregnancy every year. To raise awareness of preeclampsia as a life-threatening complicatio...
After more than two years in the making, federal legislation known as the 21st Century Cures Act passed Congress and was signed into law. The landmark legislation was one of the final bills signed into law by President Obama. In addition to providing...
After a two-year effort, Congress took a major step forward toward passing extensive legislation titled The 21st Century Cures Act to accelerate the development of and access to treatment for rare diseases and other conditions in need of biomedical i...
The U.S. Congressional Caucus on Maternity Care, a coalition of members of Congress serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, invited the Preeclampsia Foundation to participate in a meeting to help set the Caucus’ agenda in the upcoming con...
Apply for this training program for families affected by preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome Melbourne, FL – July 6, 2016 – The Preeclampsia Foundation announced today that applications are now being accepted for their Fall 2016 Preeclampsia...