Keeping the Women we Love Healthy

The Doris A. Howell Foundation will be kicking off its lecture series on February 8th with the presentation "Women and Diabetes: Use of digital technologies in diabetes care" with key note speaker Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD. Please visit www.howellfoundation.org to register for the event. With a significant number of diagnosed and under/undiagnosed diabetic and pre-diabetic Americans (close to 10% of the population), creating awareness of the symptoms, risk factors and management strategies becomes increasingly necessary. The result of the body’s inability to produce or respond to insulin creates abnormal metabolic function, resulting in too much sugar in the blood. The classifications of diabetes are: Type 1 diabetes: A chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Type 2 diabetes: A chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose). Pre-diabetes: A condition in which blood sugar is high, but not high...

Pictured left to right,  2018 Howell UCSD Scholars Annie Chen, Hoejeong Kim, Rachel Sebastian & Allison Kramer. One of the cornerstones of the Foundation is to award scholarships to those who are interested in pursuing a career in women's health.  We like to say we want them excited to do so!   With fields or research that range from placental stem cells,  to elevated testosterone in the female system, genetic breast cancer counseling for young survivors and gestational diabetes, these young ladies pretty much prove our point! Read about the details below! Hoejeong Kim:  Embryonic stem cells differentiate into cells required to make up tissues and organs. Tissue-specific stem cells can be found in most organs and contribute to maintaining and repairing the tissue after stress or damage. Hoejeong’s project will focus on identifying and isolating stem cells called trophoblast stem (TS) cells, which have been found in mice but not yet in...

                                                  #### About the Doris A. Howell Foundation: For the past 23 years, The Doris A. Howell Foundation for Women’s Health Research has been dedicated to keeping to women we love healthy by making a long-term, positive impact on women’s health.  To date, it is the premier organization advancing women’s health. The organization does so by funding scholarships to students researching issues affecting women’s health; providing a forum for medical experts, scientists, doctors, and researchers to convey timely information on topics relevant to women’s health, and by funding research initiatives that improve the health of under-served women and increase awareness and advocacy in the community; bringing women's health research to a full cycle.                 ...