Health research has historically overlooked women, and especially women of color. But new research is finally yielding biological insights that are leading to better diagnoses and treatments for everything from ADHD to the leading causes of maternal mortality.. But the good news is that researchers are starting to fill in those gaps. Their research is yielding new biological insights—leading to better diagnoses and more targeted treatments, from menstruation to menopause.1.
Girls and women tend to have inattentive ADHD and their symptoms are more likely to be mistaken for emotional or learning difficulties—if anyone notices them at all. “They’re more likely to be seen as daydreamers, or lost in the clouds,” said Julia Schechter, co-director of Duke University’s Center for Women and Girls with ADHD. “Their symptoms are just as impairing, but can fly under the radar.” The consequences, Kaelyn writes, can be severe.
Although these symptoms can be debilitating, physicians and researchers told Sam that they’ve witnessed their peers dismiss HG as “hysteria.” So, it’s no surprise that research into how to treat it is underfunded.slowly happening. In recent years, studies have pinpointed a specific hormone linked to HG and even unlocked exactly how that hormone causes the condition. These findings could finally yield new treatments—if doctors know to prescribe them.
Finally, doctors have long administered the antibiotic azithromycin during cesarean sections to reduce infections that can lead to sepsis. But clinical trials have shown recently that administering a single dose of the drug during a vaginal laborFrozen shoulder syndrome is pretty much what it sounds like: a condition in which the connective tissue in your shoulders becomes inflamed to the point where you can’t move.