History
This nurse is known as the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
This cancers affects women from their teens through old age.
Cervical Cancer
The common term for a fertilized egg that has implanted in the uterus.
embryo
This annual shot helps protect against a virus that mutates every year and peaks during winter months.
Flu shot
Mammogram
She was the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree in 1849.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Medical screening that helps detect to detect abnormal cells in the cervix
Pap Smear
The most common direct cause of maternal death globally, often resulting from excessive blood loss during or after delivery.
Hemorrhage
This childhood vaccine helps prevent a disease once known for causing paralysis in children.
Polio vaccine
Inherited mutations in these genes greatly increase lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
BRCA1 and BRCA2
In 1973, this U.S. Supreme Court case legalized abortion nationwide, impacting women's reproductive rights.
Roe v. Wade
This virus causes over 90% of cervical cancers
HPV (Human papillomavirus)
The specific week of pregnancy that marks the end of the embryonic stage and the start of the fetal stage.
Week 8 or 9
This vaccine is recommended for older adults and those with chronic illnesses to prevent lung infection.
Pneumonia vaccine
Mastectomy
In the 1960s, this form of contraception revolutionized women's health and reproductive rights.
"The Pill" (oral contraceptives)
While not a virus, this common reproductive event increases a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer.
A fetal heart rate that is less than 110 beats per minute during labor is defined as this condition.
Bradycardia
This vaccine is given within 24 hours of birth to prevent a serious viral liver infection.
Hepatitis B vaccine
Medicine that blocks hormones to treat some breast cancers.
Hormone therapy
Passed in 1993, this U.S. law protects pregnant workers from being fired due to pregnancy or childbirth.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Type of HPV linked to cervical cancer
16 and 18
The critical nutrient, taken early in pregnancy, that prevents neural tube defects like spina bifida.
Folic Acid or Folate
This vaccine uses an inactivated bacterial toxin to prevent a disease known for causing muscle stiffness and “lockjaw.”
Tetanus vaccine
Surgical that removes only the tumor and a rim of normal tissue.
Lumpectomy