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The research, funding and delivery of healthcare for women, covering reproductive care, pregnancy, menopause, and conditions presenting differently than in men.
A 2026 US study recorded more than 90,000 off-label testosterone prescriptions to women in 2025, up 58.7% from 2024. The FDA has not approved the hormone for menopause, and the only positive trial signal described is for low sexual desire.
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Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Michigan slowed endometriosis lesion spread in mice with a repackaged tapeworm drug. The treatment also reduced inflammation, and the team is working toward clinical trials for a disease with limited treatment options.
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Weizmann Institute researchers analyzed more than 300 million lab tests from over a million women and report step-like shifts at menopause. In the Nature Medicine paper the largest changes sit in bone metabolism, liver tests and lipid handling.
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Researchers writing in Nature Medicine pooled data on over 6 million people in 118 countries and found women report more pain than men at all 11 body sites. The authors say the steep climb in pain before 55 argues for prevention during working age.
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Surgeons earned about 44 percent more for male-specific procedures than female analogues in a 1997 study, a gap that has barely narrowed in 20 years. A doctor-run committee sets those values, so hospitals receive the gap as a price signal that pulls resources away from gynecology.
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Science's women's health issue traces sex differences in disease across all ages, including functional pain women experience at about twice men's rate. Its editors say political attacks and research funding cuts make the work urgent.
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Researchers searching #womenshealth from a new Instagram account found 39% of 472 posts selling a product or service. Only 7% cited scientific evidence, and because the account was new, the figures describe the first view a stranger gets from a search.
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A new Gallup and Pivotal survey measures how women's healthcare experiences carry into work, family and civic life. The work figure is the one benefits teams will reach for, though the survey put its questions to women only.
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