Celmatix

05/05/2023

A comprehensive look in Fast Company on discussions around , and why Celmatix is committed to developing therapeutics for ovarian dysfunction.

"One of the biggest lies in healthcare today is that menopause is a natural phenomenon, or a phenomenon that we should feel empowered by somehow, as a rite of passage,” Dr. Piraye Yurttas Beim says. In her eyes, it’s a “public health crisis.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90878726/meet-the-women-embracing-menopause-and-those-hoping-to-end-it

From hot flashes to thinning hair, startups are tackling menopause's worst symptoms. Others are trying to eliminate it altogether.

05/01/2023

While we regularly discuss the complicated health toll of on women, a new study from the Mayo Clinic uncovers a sizable financial toll as well. Findings from the study reveal menopause is estimated to cost the US more than $1.8 billion each year, with 13.4% of women having at least one adverse work outcome due to menopause symptoms and nearly 10.8% reporting missing work in the last 12 months due to menopause. These adverse work outcomes and missed days are even higher for Black and Hispanic working women.

Some are taking sick days. Others are cutting back their hours. Still others end up quitting altogether.

04/25/2023

The New Yorker features Celmatix in this month's “The Future of Fertility” piece with our Founder Dr. Piraye Beim's perspective on what the future of could truly hold, and the critical work needed to address women's reproductive longevity.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility

12/23/2020

Great to be included in BIO's feature on some of its newest members. We're looking forward to the collaboration and partnership ahead as we continue to address gender disparities in therapeutics and develop a better standard of care for women.



https://www.bio.org/blogs/5-reasons-why-companies-joined-bio-2020?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRSbVlUWXlZV00wTlRFMCIsInQiOiJGUUd3bzJUVEpjWVQ4elYxMVJrNDgxaWdUWFRHQlRhaFpRRzFLVmp0OFpOYjhHWHNVcjVQUWRcL1lWRXg5bmFtR1B2WndSQUlla3gwUmZSSjU1MDZGeVE9PSJ9

In distressing times, we get by with a little help from our friends, as the song goes. And as we’ve seen this year, collaboration and partnership are keys to getting through times of uncertainty, economic hardship, and solving enormous challenges—from ending a global pandemic to eradicating syst...

07/06/2020

Public Health researchers have been studying the impact of tear gas on reproductive health for nearly 40 years. While it's previously been linked to miscarriage, recent events once again point to its possible impact on menstruation and hormones.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/protestors-say-tear-gas-caused-early-menstruation

Tear gas has unknown effects on the reproductive system, but some have linked it to miscarriages.

06/18/2020

Black doctors make up only 5% of all US physicians- often leading to an isolating and solitary experience.

In this powerful two-part series, Dr. Jessica Gold shares stories from a collection of physicians on what it feels like to be a black doctor today, and the systemic racism that must be addressed within medicine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicagold/2020/06/12/i-am-tired-what-black-doctors-need-you-to-know-right-now/

In their own words, this piece features a range of voices, from pathologists to psychiatrists, who will tell you what it means and feels like to be a black doctor right now in the middle of two pandemics, Covid-19 and the national reckoning with racism.

06/09/2020

10 years ago a study revealed that females were excluded from most biomedical research. This year, researchers revisited the study to ask; have things improved a decade later?

While the number of studies that included females increased, the proportion that analyzed study results by s*x showed no improvement and in some cases, even decreased.

With that, STAT explains "not only do we miss the opportunity to understand when s*x differences are or are not occurring, we lessen our ability to find effects of the other variables under investigation.”

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/09/females-are-still-routinely-left-out-of-biomedical-research-and-ignored-in-analyses-of-data/

Compared to 2009, the number of studies that included females grew, but the proportion of studies that analyzed study results by s*x did not.

06/05/2020

Celmatix stands in solidarity with the millions of people lifting their voices in protest and also joins countless more in reflecting on what we can do to make this a turning point for racial inequality. Inequality comes in many forms for People of Color, but race-related health disparities are among the starkest and most resistant to progress. Being a Black female further amplifies these inequities. We have to do better.

In this piece, our founder and CEO Dr. Piraye Yurttas Beim reviews these inequities and also presents immediate steps we can take to start addressing them.

https://blog.celmatix.com/black-lives-matter-b42d25d03078

Like so many people across the United States and around the world, my colleagues and I at Celmatix feel deeply outraged by the brutal and…

06/03/2020

PCOS impacts 10 percent of all women and is the most frequent cause of female infertility. However, women still do not have access to drugs developed specifically to treat this condition.

Today, we announced a major advancement that brings us closer to providing unique therapies for the millions of women with PCOS. We have identified a novel drug target to be progressed by our Women's Health Alliance partner Evotec and Bayer as they develop treatments for this under-diagnosed and underserved disease.


https://bwnews.pr/2Xu468A

Celmatix Inc., the leading precision health company advancing the field of women’s reproductive medicine, today announced the first milestone has been

06/02/2020

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05/29/2020

Our Founder and CEO Dr. Piraye Beim recently shared her thoughts with Mic on the importance of Rep. Abby Finkenauer's House Endometriosis Caucus. The caucus was created to not only educate the public about endometriosis but also increase the nation's financial investment for this condition that impacts 1 in 10 women.
https://www.mic.com/p/for-rep-abby-finkenauer-advancing-endometriosis-research-is-personal-22861486

When she was 18, Abby Finkenauer was hospitalized for four days due to a severe pain in her abdomen. Doctors performed a laparoscopy, making several small cuts into the abdomen so they could insert a camera to view her reproductive organs. After…

05/18/2020

While record unemployment numbers have been felt across the country, women’s unemployment in April was nearly three points higher than men’s. Economists also predict that as states reopen, many low-wage workers, who are disproportionately female, will be the least likely to be rehired.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/05/09/women-unemployment-jobless-coronavirus/?stream=top&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

Not only are women over-represented in some of the hardest-hit industries, including hospitality, health care, and education, but they lost jobs in those sectors at disproportionate rates

05/13/2020

This is National Women's Health Week. An annual week-long
event to remind women and girls to make their health a priority. This includes annual health screenings, incorporating a healthy diet and exercise, and making sure to prioritize mental health as well.

https://www.womenshealth.gov/nwhw/about

National Women's Health Week, led by the Office on Women's Health, empowers women to prioritize their health.

05/07/2020

While the work ahead to rebuild the economy is immense, one state sees it as an opportunity to improve on the old normal, and "build a system that is capable of delivering gender equality.”

https://www.thelily.com/this-state-says-they-have-a-feminist-economic-recovery-plan-heres-what-that-looks-like/

They want ‘to build a system that is capable of delivering gender equality’

05/05/2020

As self-quarantine and homeschooling continue across much of the country, editors of academic journals have noticed a trend: Women — who inevitably shoulder a greater share of family responsibilities — seem to be submitting fewer papers. At the same time, submissions from men are on the rise.
https://www.thelily.com/women-academics-seem-to-be-submitting-fewer-papers-during-coronavirus-never-seen-anything-like-it-says-one-editor/

Men are submitting up to 50 percent more

05/04/2020

Data from the UN's s*xual and reproductive health agency shows the profound negative impact is having on women today- and that "The number of cases of women without access to family planning, facing unplanned pregnancies, and gender-based violence could skyrocket by millions in the months to come."



https://www.businessinsider.com/structural-inequality-gender-equality-coronavirus-pandemic-outbreak-contraceptives-pregnancy-fgm-2020-4

From lost jobs and unplanned pregnancy to FGM and domestic abuse, the UN says women and girls around the world will bear the brunt of the crisis.

04/29/2020

In this opinion piece by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, medical advisor to amfAR, she explains the many ways is impacting men and women differently and that, "As we race to find effective treatments and a vaccine, the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical trials is critical."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/opinions/coronavirus-research-women-blumenthal/index.html

More research must be conducted to look into the potential impact of s*x, along with other demographic factors, on Covid-19 patients, writes former US Assistant Surgeon General Susan Blumenthal.