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Investigating the Severity and Timeline of PASC Symptoms: Focus on Physiological and Cognitive Effects Rohan Melwani, Keerthana Noru, Sanya Kondapalli, Ameya Ravi, Saanvi Shah, Shreeya Setty, Shashank Sastry, Sahar Jahanikia [Preprint] Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the...

Abstract: A group of debilitating health conditions disproportionately impacting women, increasingly known as ‘energy limiting conditions’, is associated with a long history of medical and societal disability denial. This article offers reflections on socio-cultural, bio-political and...

Impact of sex and gender on post-COVID-19 syndrome, Switzerland, 2020 Caroline E Gebhard; Claudia Sütsch; Pimrapat Gebert; Bianca Gysi; Susan Bengs; Atanas Todorov; Manja Deforth; Philipp K Buehler; Alexander Meisel; Reto A Schuepbach; Annelies S Zinkernagel; Silvio D Brugger; Claudio Acevedo...

Emerging Subspecialties in Neurology: Women’s Neurology Hayley F. Thornton,, Sara C. LaHue, Riley Bove, Janet Waters, Mary A. O’Neal, Esther Bui The influence of sex and gender on neurologic disease has become increasingly recognized in science and medicine. This is evident across a woman’s...

Frontiers Psychology, 13 June 2022 The Reproducibility Movement in Psychology: Does Researcher Gender Affect How People Perceive Scientists With a Failed Replication ? Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, Jessi L. Smith, Christina M. Sanzari, Theresa K. Vescio and Peter Glick...

Abstract Introduction: Fibromyalgia is a condition that is often misunderstood by the medical community. Misunderstandings are exacerbated when a patient is an ethnic minority, and recent literature suggests that ethnic minorities are shown to have a higher prevalence of fibromyalgia. Despite...

Abstract The modern woman has taken her rightful place in society as a worker, a caregiver, a mother, and a world citizen. However, along with the privileges of these roles comes the great cost of stress and resultant exhaustion and fatigue. Psychosocial, physical, cultural, and disease-related...

Abstract Background Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a chronic form of orthostatic intolerance that primarily impacts female patients of childbearing age. The role of sex differences in POTS is not well understood. We sought to identify sex differences in diagnosis, symptoms...

Demographic Correlates of Fatigue in the US General Population: Results from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Initiative https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744100/. free access Abstract Objective To investigate demographic correlates of fatigue...

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/1/3/44 Screening of a Small Number of Italian COVID-19 Syndrome Survivors by Means of the Fatigue Assessment Scale: Long COVID Prevalence and the Role of Gender by Antonella Serafini 1,*, Alberto Tagliaferro 2,3,* Francesco Balbi 1, Alberto Bordo 1, Stefano...

Sex-Specific Characteristics of the Microcirculation Virginia Huxley and Scott Kemp Advances in Experimental Medine and Biology DOI Chapter full text link (PDF) The requirements of metabolizing tissue are both continuous and variable; accordingly, the microvasculature serving that tissue must...

Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care Jennifer C. H. Sebring In recent years, the term ‘medical gaslighting’ and accompanying accounts of self-identified women experiencing invalidation, dismissal and inadequate care have proliferated in the media...

Alice Hattrick is an author who lives with ME/CFS and has recently published the book "Ill Feelings". Alice Hattrick was aged eight when their mother collapsed with mycoplasma pneumonia. The author – who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they” – found her on the kitchen floor at their home in...

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Highlights • In two studies, perceivers under-estimated female patients’ pain compared with males’ pain. • Perceivers’ pain-related gender stereotypes predicted pain estimation biases. • Perceivers prescribed more psychotherapy for female and more pain medicine for male patients. Abstract...

"The Department of Health and Social Care marked International Women’s Day this year with the launch of a consultation, asking women in England to share their experiences of the ‘gender health gap’. It’s a welcome gesture, but it must be backed up by action – and cold hard cash – particularly...

Background: Gender bias has been an ongoing issue in health care, examples being underrepresentation of women in health studies, trivialization of women's physical complaints, and discrimination in the awarding of research grants. We examine here a different issue—gender disparity when it comes...

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“The real me shining through M.E.”: Visualizing masculinity and identity threat in men with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome using photovoice and IPA. In: Psychology of Men & Masculinities https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-32617-001