WHA in the News

WHA’s Founder, Barbra Streisand and Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, WHA’s Scientific Advisor and Director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, recently sat down to talk about women’s heart health on JAMA’s Clinical Reviews podcast. They touch particularly on coronary microvascular disease and how it causes an unusual presentation of cardiac ischemic disease in women. “Improving heart health is everybody’s responsibility,” said Streisand. “Because cardiovascular disease is everybody’s problem.” Listen to the full episode here.

Women’s Heart Alliance Medical Advisor Dr. Holly Andersen, Director of Education and Outreach at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses why heart disease kills more women every year than all cancers combined on the “Real Women, Real Stories” channel. “Most of what we know about heart disease has come from research done on men, designed for men. And this has greatly benefited men, but women have not fared as well,” she says. “And while death rates have been declining in this country for decades for men, death rates due to heart disease …

The Washington Post’s Reliable Source and Politico’s Playbook were among the news media that covered Women’s Heart Alliance co-founder Barbra Streisand’s visit to D.C. to address the National Institutes of Health for the prestigious J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Read more here. Here are some of the highlights: “Better understanding of sex differences will not only fill in critical gaps in women’s health, but can improve men’s health as well,” Barbra Streisand, delivering the 2018 J. Edward Rall Lecture at the NIH, on May 15. Barbra Streisand thanks NIH Director Francis Collins, “You have done …