Women are driving new demand for medical cannabis, due to a lack of effective options in mainstream healthcare. Reflecting on International Women’s Day and conversations I’ve had with women across the ...

“$350 million in research focused on women could yield $14 billion in economic returns. Doubling investment in women-focused research for coronary artery disease alone could save nearly $2 billion in ...

Medical misogyny means that women living with debilitating female health conditions, like endometriosis, adenomyosis and heavy menstrual bleeding, are routinely having their pain dismissed and ...

Gender bias can cause healthcare professionals to provide lower quality care to women. Learning to self-advocate in healthcare settings can help women participate in their care and receive equitable ...

Two cardiologists explain the new consolidated female heart health framework and clinical guidance issued by four top U.S.

Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet before the 1990s they were largely excluded from health and medical research studies. I am a public health researcher who has studied chronic disease ...

The government has announced 11 new endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics as part of the 2025-26 federal budget. The new clinics form part of a number of women's health initiatives, after Treasurer ...

Our understanding of the female body and its unique healthcare needs remains surprisingly limited. Many drugs are mainly tested on men, and it was only recently that female-specific heart disease ...

Women's health has long been overlooked in science and medicine—an oversight with serious consequences not just for women, but for public health as a whole. A 2024 McKinsey report found that women ...

KABUL, June 1 (IPS) - While Afghanistan faces a serious shortage of female doctors, the country’s Islamist regime has placed restrictions on female students from graduating, further exacerbating the ...

Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance scheme, guarantees all Australians access to a wide range of health and hospital services at low or no cost. Although access to the scheme is universal ...

With a few exceptions, women have been systematically erased from the history of nearly every field, and research and medicine are no exception. Anyone who disagrees with this assertion should ...