sexism

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. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/

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 Chronic Fatigue" Shame about the title, yet again. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/70529

Paywalled at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2019.1595694 Sci Hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/14680777.2019.1595694

https://spoonseeker.com/2019/03/08/mus-international-womens-day/

Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment https://academic.oup.com/jpepsy/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104/5273626?redirectedFrom=fulltext Journal of Pediatric Psychology, jsy104, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104 Brian D Earp et al, Published: 04 January 2019 (Paywall)...

transcript available here:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180523-how-gender-bias-affects-your-healthcare

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 astonishing. (Could someone tell me what an MW is, please? Somehow I don't think it is a megawatt!) Edit : The article isn't awful either, so do read...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/well/live/when-doctors-downplay-womens-health-concerns.html

Lenny: When Doctors Dismiss Women's pain by Maya Dusenbery Many conditions that disproportionately affect women — including endometriosis, fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, and chronic fatigue syndrome — are still very poorly understood, yet receive minuscule amounts of research...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/27/597159133/how-bad-medicine-dismisses-and-misdiagnoses-womens-symptoms?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social As she began to research her own condition, Dusenbery realized how lucky she was to have been diagnosed...

http://www.themedicalcareblog.com/female-hysteria-myth-disparities/ Also appeared originally here. Click on title to access.

Medicine Has A Sexism Problem, And It’s Making Sick Women Sicker https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-dusenbery-medical-sexism-research_us_5a9e01c4e4b0a0ba4ad72a3c?v7 This article published on HuffPost today provides an excellent overview of the MUS concept as applied to illnesses that...

"Currently, 11 percent of EUR’s professors are female. Women are still underrepresented in the top echelons of science. As a result, they miss out on up to €200 million, according to the annual monitor published by the Dutch Network of Women Professors."...

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 late 1940s, a more even gender split was presumed. By 1960 it was posited that women might actually be slightly more prone to the condition. With the...