News & Views Higher mortality rates for young women from heart attack A new study has found that young women may be likelier to die than men in the decade following a heart attack.
Business Period stigma at school & in the office is real. This business wants to change that Pixii is a service that provides eco-friendly, plastic-free tampons and pads to workplaces and schools, in a bid to end period stigma.
News & Views Women weather worse treatment after heart attacks than men This week, research from Circulation: Heart Failure revealed that women who get heart attacks received less care than men.
Life Unseen: Jacinta Parsons on chronic illness & losing her body Jacinta Parsons is a radio broadcaster & author who explores living with Crohn’s Disease and losing her body to medicine in Unseen.
News & Views Wholistic health matters and R U OK should be a regular conversation Normalising and increasing the dialogue on wholistic health, mental health and coping strategies is imperative, writes Pallavi Sinha.
News & Views 1 in 10 women are affected by endometriosis. So why does it take so long to diagnose? Endometriosis affects 10% of women, but many live with the painful symptoms of the condition for years without a diagnosis.
News & Views New study uncovers reality of period poverty in Australian schools “Period poverty is a real issue that is under-researched,” Dr Ruth Knight from QUT Business says of a new study of the issue in schools.
News & Views Ignoring sex in medical research is ignoring women’s lives Recent research has found that ignoring sex in research ignores how some diseases, medicine and treatments impact men and women differently.
News & Views 75% of the UK’s NHS workers are women. But average hospital protective-wear designed for the average man Startling reports uncover personal protective equipment currently used in the UK are fitting only the “size and shape of male bodies”.
News & Views What service disruptions means for women’s health globally Women are especially vulnerable to the affects of COVID-19, with disruptions female health services and access to gender-based violence services.
News & Views A trauma recovery centre is critical for survivors of domestic & family violence Sally Stevenson, CEO of the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre, is on a mission to create the first women’s Trauma Recovery Service in Australia.
Entrepreneurs Nicole Liu is revolutionising fertility wellbeing with a contraceptive delivery service Nicole Liu is an entrepreneur who started up her own fertility empowerment company. KIN delivers a monthly package of contraceptive pills to busy women.
