[MEDIA] Thought this would be relevant to many ME/CFS patients. Glad this sort of stuff is getting more mainstream coverage.
Programme on how women were disbelieved for years when they said their breast implants were making them ill....
A thread for general NIH news and discussion See also: USA: NIH funding for ME/CFS research Medpage today: "NIH Striving to Avoid False Hope in...
ABSTRACT Media portrayals of conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) demand exploration as the media is a...
A friend has asked me to post this and I thoroughly agree that this is an important issue affecting women in particular. People with M.E. may...
Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment...
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Compared to many other diseases, diagnosing a brain tumour is fairly straightforward. Promptly detecting it comes down to being concerned enough...
My reason for posting about this article is not because the article is fantastically good (it isn't), but because the comments in reply to it are...
“Well, you look like you’re doing great,” my primary care physician cheerfully informed me. I stared at her from the examination table in...
Lenny: When Doctors Dismiss Women's pain by Maya Dusenbery Many conditions that disproportionately affect women — including endometriosis,...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/27/597159133/how-bad-medicine-dismisses-and-misdiagnoses-womens-symptoms?utm_campaign=storyshare&...
Women with lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and even Parkinson’s disease still typically face long periods of misdiagnosis,...
Medicine Has A Sexism Problem, And It’s Making Sick Women Sicker...
"Currently, 11 percent of EUR’s professors are female. Women are still underrepresented in the top echelons of science. As a result, they miss...
The author has ME. " 6 February 2018 — 11:00pm As recently as 1921, MS (multiple sclerosis) was erroneously considered more common in men. By the...
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