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A Brief But Spectacular take on revolutionizing women’s health care

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

After struggling to find doctors who properly treated her own menopause symptoms, Joanna Strober created Midi Health, a virtual clinic designed for the millions of women navigating this significant life transition. She gives her Brief But Spectacular take on revolutionizing women's health care. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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After struggling to find doctors who properly treated her own menopause symptoms,

0:06.0

Joanna Strober created Midi Health, a virtual clinic designed for the millions of women navigating this significant life transition.

0:14.0

Here's her take on revolutionizing women's health care.

0:17.0

When I was in my 40s, I had a big job and things actually started falling apart in my life.

0:24.6

I was angry a lot, I wasn't sleeping, I was having hot flashes.

0:29.6

And honestly, I didn't know what was going on in my body, and I didn't really have a lot of models to tell me that I was experiencing perimenopause and that

0:38.3

I should be doing something about it.

0:40.3

Our physical and our emotional lives are actually very tied together.

0:46.3

If you're not sleeping, if you're having anxiety, when you go to work the next day, it's really hard to perform.

0:52.3

And the statistics are actually staggering and really unhappy when you read that over 50%

0:58.1

of women are not applying for a raise at work because of these menopause symptoms, and

1:02.9

10% actually leave their jobs because of menopause symptoms that are 100% treatable.

1:09.4

When I actually found a provider to help me,

1:12.0

which took about a year to get into that provider,

1:14.5

they had a six-month waiting list.

1:16.5

Within two weeks, I was on a selection of medications

1:20.0

and my entire life got better.

1:21.7

I'm just really sad that it took me so long

1:23.5

in order to get the right care.

1:25.3

I really feel strongly that menopause care is an issue of equity.

1:29.3

I really believe women have the right to expert care.

1:32.3

Midi Health is a national virtual care clinic for women to take care of all of the issues of perimenopause and menopause.

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