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The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care theguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The author examines the medical science gender gap. Picture: iStock If we want an equal society, we need to ensure women have access to healthcare services and treatments that meet their specific needs, and diagnostic tools that don t favour men, writes Sipho Mamize. There has been a lot of talk about gender equality over the past years. One sphere that has been neglected and ignored, it seems, is the medical science gender gap. We must talk about this, particularly on International Day of Action for Women s Health, a permanent fixture on the global awareness calendar since 1987. Its objective is to highlight the prevailing gaps in research data regarding female health, and to campaign for a better understanding and funding of women s health issues. ....
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStock (NEW YORK) When Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, and Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, each say they experienced unexpected menstrual cycles after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, they did what researchers do and began to collect data. Clancy conferred with Lee, who said several colleagues had also reported differing menstrual symptoms, and issued a single tweet in late February explaining her own symptoms and asking if anyone else had experienced anything similar. Three months later, Lee and Clancy say more than 80,000 people have documented their experiences in an online survey they collaborated on examining short-term vaccine side effects related to the menstrual cycle. ....
Participatory Gender-sensitive Conflict Analysis for Area Within Tripoli, Libya reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As author Maya Dusenbery made clear in her book Doing Harm, these conditions are under-researched and often go undiagnosed and untreated. Different sex, different symptoms Heart disease is another example where sex or perhaps sexism stills plays a huge determining factor. Women are less likely to experience the “classic” symptoms of a heart attack symptoms that were discovered in research led by men, in which most of the participants were men. Women are less likely to experience the “classic” symptoms of a heart attack. Women’s most common heart attack symptom, as with men, is chest pain or discomfort. But women are more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and back or jaw pain. ....