FemmePharma Consumer Healthcare
Healthcare products developed by women, for women.
Though this autumn has been unseasonably warm in many places, cold weather will be upon us shortly—and it may be more challenging than usual this year due to a worldwide pandemic forcing many of us indoors and into isolation. Here…
Eleven years after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis, Katy Wagnon has a lot to be grateful for: a full recovery, supportive family, and a beautiful daughter with another on the way. Now, she’s sharing her story with other survivors, hoping…
If you had asked Arpi Hamilton five years ago if competing in and winning the Mrs. Arizona America pageant was part of her life plan, she would have answered you with a resounding “No.” But now? She’ll tell you it’s…
After what she’s been through, one would think that nonprofit CFO and breast cancer survivor Jamil Rivers would have every reason to feel discouraged. In 2018, at the age of 39, she learned that she had stage IV metastatic breast…
Dr. Shawana Moore understands the importance of empowering girls and women. As an assistant professor at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Nursing, she guides students in the holistic health practices that enable them to become practicing nurses in their…
“I saw an underserved population,” she says. “Women weren’t satisfied as patients, and I wasn’t satisfied as a practitioner. And while I loved obstetrics, I saw that older women fell through the cracks and were bouncing back and forth between…
If you’re a young adult with cancer, Traci Owen is most definitely someone you want in your corner. A registered nurse for more than three decades and a member of the team at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa,…
COVID-19 forced rapid changes in the way many of us work. Companies that previously resisted allowing employees to work from home suddenly had no choice, and healthcare practitioners who’d been reluctant to embrace telemedicine realized that patient safety in a…
It’s said that it takes, on average, 66 days for a behavior to become a habit, and now with about 30 days of sheltering in place under our belts, we’ve had time to settle into new routines. We’re well on…
Dr. Dana Shanis is passionate about helping women understand that they don’t have to live with chronic pelvic pain. At her practice, VHealth & Wellness, in Philadelphia, she and her co-founder, nurse practitioner Catherine McGinty, make listening a priority. That’s…
We asked our customers for their stories about how has Satisfem™ vaginal moisturizer has helped them. Here’s what one of them, a 79-year-old retired librarian with Sjogren’s syndrome, wrote to tell us. ~~~ I think the dryness became really noticeable…
We asked our customers for their stories about how has Satisfem™ vaginal moisturizer has helped them. Here’s what one of them wrote to tell us. ~~~ As women, we grow up hearing various potential symptoms the “change of life” can…