Longer reads on women's health research, naming, equity, and the design of medical evidence. Written alongside the day-to-day of building FemHealth.
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Why heart disease is missed in women (11 July 2026, Research). A leading cause of death in women, studied for decades mostly in men. Why women are more often initially misdiagnosed.
Why PCOS is so often missed (11 July 2026, Research). A condition affecting roughly one in ten women, yet many spend years and several clinicians reaching a diagnosis.
The menopause evidence gap (11 July 2026, Research). How a single 2002 trial reshaped menopause care almost overnight, and why the science is still catching up.
The gender pain gap (11 July 2026, Research). Women in pain wait longer and are treated less aggressively. A pattern documented in the peer-reviewed literature for more than twenty years.
Why endometriosis takes years to diagnose (11 July 2026, Research). A condition affecting roughly one in ten women, yet commonly diagnosed seven to eight years late. Several failures stacked in sequence.
Why women's health research is underfunded (11 July 2026, Research funding). Line funding up against disease burden and a consistent imbalance appears. How thin funding becomes thin evidence.
Why women were left out of clinical trials (11 July 2026, Research). A 1977 FDA guidance formally excluded women of childbearing potential from early trials; the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act reversed it. The documented history and the gap it left.
Sex, not gender (11 July 2026, Terminology). Why FemHealth signals say "sex", not "gender", what the two words measure, and why a study can address one and not the other.
What the paper leaves out (11 July 2026, Features). A study's silence can matter more than its headline: who was studied, at what age, where, in what reproductive state.
PCOS or PMOS? (14 May 2026, Terminology). Researchers are proposing to rename PCOS. The science is sound. But the new acronym is already taken by transistors, materials chemistry, and a patient safety survey. What that costs.
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