Bottom line: YOUR health starts with research. When your doctor discusses alternative treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease, it started with research. Just last week, we learned about one of the latest breakthroughs…
Category: Women’s Health Research support
Women's Health Year Round!
Simple Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle For the Howell Foundation, women’s health is year round. It’s a celebration — and well deserved recognition– of the long path that scientists have…
Springing forward all year long: It's not about losing an hour of sleep, rather learning how to sleep to find your health!
In August 2107, our very own Dr. Andrea LaCroix presented the health benefits of learning how to sleep during the Howell Lecture Series Improving the Snooze: Sleeping Better as we Age. …
It all starts with research: Honoring the trailblazers who make women’s health research a priority!
Bottom line is that research IS the cornerstone of women’s health. The exclusion of female subjects in current research efforts translates into women being misdiagnosed and mistreated when dealing with illness.…
Celebrating Women’s Health Week… The Body- Mind Connection: Just get moving!
It is no secret that exercise has numerous benefits for our body and our mind. Going beyond the idea of losing weight and getting into shape, physical activity helps with…
A tip a day for National Women's Health Week
For National Women’s Health Week, we’d like to postulate a simple premise. The need for women’s health research is quite clear: women are at higher risk when being diagnosed and…
TODAY is National Doctor's Day! Why we fund Undergraduate Students.
To those who have crossed the path to making sure that women’s health research is at the forefront of our efforts, thank you Howell Scholars (current and past), undergraduate students,…
Howell Foundation presents the field of research of the 2015 Cheryl Wilson Nursing Scholars
San Diego, CA – August, 2015. The Doris A. Howell Foundation announced the 2015 Cheryl Wilson Nursing Scholars to Ph.D. candidates Noelle Lipkin Leveque, sponsored by Cynthia D. Connaly,…
Celebrating the women and men that make our work at the Howell Foundation possible!
As this year’s International Women’s Day comes around, we would like to thank all the women and men that make our work at the Doris A. Howell Foundation possible. It…
Did you read this? New Lecture with Sonia Sharma
Oh yeah… and 2016, get ready, here we come! We kick off the year with the lecture “Understanding the genome 10,000 experiments at a time: applying genomic approaches to understand…
Dedicated women coming together to work towards women’s health - Soroptimist International of La Jolla
Soroptimist International of La Jolla (SILJ) is an organization that is known for acting upon community needs. The concern of the group about women’s health led them to take action,…
Community Engagement Initiative first Award -How much exercise do Latina women get during pregnancy?
Howell Foundation Awards it’s first Community Engagement Initiative Grant It was at the end of 2012 when the Howell Foundation awarded its first Community Engagement Initiative Award, “For our Health”.…
Why a universal health initiative is needed: shifting the current research paradigm to stop illness before it gets to you.
We were very fortunate to have Dr. Stanley Maloy from SDSU speak at the Foundation’s 20th year anniversary celebration last November. The topic: one world, one health with the goal…
In Support of Lung Cancer Awareness Month: The Facts to Know!
Facts about Lung Cancer Lung Cancer kills more people than Colon, Breast and Prostate cancer combined. While smoking can contribute to lung cancer, non smokers can get the disease as…
Making the case for ‘why’ women’s health research: NOT a feminist issue.
Women’s health is not a feminist issue… it’s a gender one. We ARE different. Could it be that feminist phenomena and the breaking of several glass ceilings have led to…
Embracing Women's Health Through the Arms of the Howell Foundation.
We believe that embracing women’s health starts with research and ends with education. Our own Carole Banka has her ‘cheerleading’ hat on promoting the relevance of women’s health in our…