Articles About women's health

• Feminist Health Fund receives large donation

  By Lauren ShowsJune 22, 2022

  

  Last week, members of the nonprofit Feminist Health Fund met with members of the giving group 100 Women Making a Difference in Greene County, to accept a large donation of $12,600.

• Feminist Health Fund seeks donations

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 3, 2022

  

  For more than 40 years, the village-based nonprofit Feminist Health Fund has helped women around Greene County pay for a variety of health-related costs, funding everything from prescriptions to operations.

• A focus on women’s heart health

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 15, 2018

  

  In 2011 villager Lynda Terry felt unusually tired. In the middle of the night, she woke up feeling nauseous, with a strange pain radiating down her arm. Though the symptoms weren’t the ones most would expect, Terry believed she was having a heart attack.

• Breast cancer screening in village— Mobile mammogram coming

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 26, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs women have the opportunity to obtain two critical health screenings locally when the OhioHealth mobile mammography and bone density unit visits Yellow Springs on Friday, May 27.

• HRC focus on women’s safety

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 17, 2016

  

  If a woman’s instinct says she’s unsafe in a situation, she should trust that feeling, according to two public safety experts at last Thursday’s Human Relations Commission, or HRC, meeting.

• A passion for women’s health

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 29, 2011

  

  When she talks about why she chose to specialize in women’s health, Dr. Jennifer Frey frequently uses the word “empower.” She wants to empower women to give birth in the way that they want and beyond that, to make the choices that keep them healthy and strong.