Once again, you are spot-on Deb. As a gynecologist I can tell you how difficult it is to get studies funded for even the most basic questions. Now with a few key female researchers doing the work, we are starting to get solid studies to tell us if HRT can prevent dementia (yes, by as much as 50%) and that hormonal contraception reduces certain cancers (like uterine and ovarian). These are incredibly important facts all women should know. All I can say is: please see a gynecologist for your gyn problems and prevention. She or he has the most up to date information. Yes, there are excellent family doctors too, but a gynecologist is more likely to understand the nuances of the latest research.
It is unfathomable to me (although I don't know why it should be!) that I literally have to get information on GSM from you (and a subsequent visit with Dr. Rubin) because MD's don't know anything about our reproductive health once we are no longer fertile. I just read an excerpt from a new book by Dr. Louann Brizendine, The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond and she talks about "the cloak of the invisibility of age." It doesn't get more real or succinct!
I want to say this is shocking but it’s not. Someday, I hope for some semblance of gender parity, in medicine and elsewhere. I feel compelled to plug 2 books - The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto, both by ObGyn Dr. Jen Gunter, who also tweets and has a podcast. These books taught me so much about my own body and what was happening to it in menopause. I love your point of view, Deborah, and your writing is so good. Thank you.
What the f''k is it with the guys who fund the studies, who run the studies, who run the journals, etc etc. Don't they have mothers, sisters, wives, and female progeny, and don't they care about them?!!! Time to put more women in charge!
I completely agree on the appropriateness of equal funding for make and female maladies...except if men have much shorter lifespans, should we over-invest where dollars yield the most years saved? (That hardly supports investing in ED cures does it!)
The solution to all social problems however, seems to be equal gender representation in all professions from public service to medicine.
Once again, you are spot-on Deb. As a gynecologist I can tell you how difficult it is to get studies funded for even the most basic questions. Now with a few key female researchers doing the work, we are starting to get solid studies to tell us if HRT can prevent dementia (yes, by as much as 50%) and that hormonal contraception reduces certain cancers (like uterine and ovarian). These are incredibly important facts all women should know. All I can say is: please see a gynecologist for your gyn problems and prevention. She or he has the most up to date information. Yes, there are excellent family doctors too, but a gynecologist is more likely to understand the nuances of the latest research.
It is unfathomable to me (although I don't know why it should be!) that I literally have to get information on GSM from you (and a subsequent visit with Dr. Rubin) because MD's don't know anything about our reproductive health once we are no longer fertile. I just read an excerpt from a new book by Dr. Louann Brizendine, The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond and she talks about "the cloak of the invisibility of age." It doesn't get more real or succinct!
I want to say this is shocking but it’s not. Someday, I hope for some semblance of gender parity, in medicine and elsewhere. I feel compelled to plug 2 books - The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto, both by ObGyn Dr. Jen Gunter, who also tweets and has a podcast. These books taught me so much about my own body and what was happening to it in menopause. I love your point of view, Deborah, and your writing is so good. Thank you.
What the f''k is it with the guys who fund the studies, who run the studies, who run the journals, etc etc. Don't they have mothers, sisters, wives, and female progeny, and don't they care about them?!!! Time to put more women in charge!
I completely agree on the appropriateness of equal funding for make and female maladies...except if men have much shorter lifespans, should we over-invest where dollars yield the most years saved? (That hardly supports investing in ED cures does it!)
The solution to all social problems however, seems to be equal gender representation in all professions from public service to medicine.