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Closing the gender data gap in healthcare
Closing the gender data gap in healthcare

Closing the gender data gap in healthcare

Now more than ever, data is at the center of engagement and decision making. Healthcare and life sciences are no exception: data is central to discussions about public health and is core to enabling continued scientific advancement. The accelerated digitalization of healthcare during the pandemic has only expanded the amount of health-related data available—and cemented the key role that it plays in care delivery, disease prediction and diagnosis, biopharma and medtech innovation, and patient outcomes. Despite the exponential growth in…

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A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment
A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment

A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment

A year after moving to Bridge City, Texas, 8-year-old Samuel Kulovitz thought his life couldn’t get any worse. He had made no friends in the swampy oil refinery town and spent most of his time in his family’s mobile home. He missed Florida and playing on the beach there with other children. But life did get worse. He hit puberty. For Kulovitz, who was assigned female at birth, “growing into being a young woman horrified me,” he said. “I kept…

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Yes, women’s healthcare is poor – but gender bias is not to blame for that | Zoe Williams
Yes, women’s healthcare is poor – but gender bias is not to blame for that | Zoe Williams

Yes, women’s healthcare is poor – but gender bias is not to blame for that | Zoe Williams

The health secretary, Steve Barclay, this morning unveiled his plan to deal with gender health and fitness inequality. A “landmark moment”, he referred to as it, “in improving the well being and wellbeing of women of all ages throughout the country”. The proposition was unarguable. That the health care procedure was historically built for males, by guys, is evidenced all over the place, from the comparatively reduced everyday living expectancy between women of all ages in inadequate locations to the…

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