women’s health

Jacinta Parsons is a radio broadcaster & author who explores living with Crohn’s Disease and losing her body to medicine in Unseen.

Normalising and increasing the dialogue on wholistic health, mental health and coping strategies is imperative, writes Pallavi Sinha.

Endometriosis affects 10% of women, but many live with the painful symptoms of the condition for years without a diagnosis.

“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.

Recent research has found that ignoring sex in research ignores how some diseases, medicine and treatments impact men and women differently.

Startling reports uncover personal protective equipment currently used in the UK are fitting only the “size and shape of male bodies”.

Women are especially vulnerable to the affects of COVID-19, with disruptions female health services and access to gender-based violence services.

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.

Nicole Liu is an entrepreneur who started up her own fertility empowerment company. KIN delivers a monthly package of contraceptive pills to busy women.

In Beauty, a new essay by Bri Lee, she explores our obsession with thinness and how prolific the pursuit of physical perfection has become.

Results of the National Women’s Health Survey show anxiety is the biggest health concern among women, with young women more likely to be affected.

New research shows the cost of endometriosis is $30,000 a year, most of which is due to lost productivity while women are experiencing high levels of pain.