Parents of teenagers who experience severe period symptoms,including debilitating pain,are struggling to get the right help.
The months-long “medical limbo” Kirsty Costa fell into while trying to get a diagnosis has now helped to inform new guidelines for doctors.
Keira Rumble was a victim of a poorly researched health phenomenon known as medical misogyny. Its consequences can be fatal.
Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.
Nikki Purtill was lucky to survive an undiagnosed cyst on her brain. Her experience is part of the under-researched phenomenon of medical misogyny.
Ground-breaking Australian research is aimed at developing medication that can mimic the benefits of exercise on the heart and help prevent sudden cardiac death.
Sensitive discussions are under way to transfer five men,serving life sentences for their roles in a 2005 heroin smuggling ring,from Indonesia to Australia.
Women are being gaslit into believing pain is in their mind,while men get treated earlier and with better pain medication,as misogynistic ideas persist in parts of healthcare.
Paying the families of young women for marriage is a valued tradition in South Sudan,but “reduces the bride to the level of an object” in Australia,academics argue.
Pregnant women have been systematically excluded from clinical trials for 90 per cent of medications available worldwide,and experts say it is putting them at risk.
Catherine Slogrove has developed Australia’s first probiotic for vaginas. The challenge is getting the message across,especially to men about why it’s important.