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Women affected by poverty, racism, trauma, caregiving stress or unstable housing often lack primary health care. They wind up in walk-in clinics or emergency with late-stage serious illnesses.
Millions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal.
Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.
The landmark study, which enrolled more than 160,000 participants and has informed public health guidelines for women over 50, is still making tremendous contributions to women’s health.
Reassurance scans are marketed as a way to ‘give you peace of mind’ about your baby’s development. But often those doing the scans aren’t actually sonographers.
The daily tablet can help reduce pain and inflammation caused by the chronic and often debilitating condition.
Restrictions on US aid is likely to drive up illegal abortions and maternal deaths.
Abortion rights issues could decide the U.S. presidential election. Here’s what Ireland did wrong, and how voters successfully demanded a dramatic change in course for women’s health care.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Constitutional Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Vice-President Global Health, McMaster University
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Professor, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV-Related Disease and Cancer, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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