Women's Health: Conditions and Care
Women collects reporting on conditions that present, progress or get treated differently in female patients: cardiac symptoms missed at triage, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, thyroid disorders and migraine. Each article states what research exists, how many women were studied, and where the evidence remains too thin to settle a decision.
Conditions that present or progress differently in female patients, from cardiac symptoms to autoimmune disease, with the size of the evidence base stated.
Anxiety and depression in women: what the numbers show
Women are diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders at roughly twice the rate of men, and US screening guidelines changed in 2023 accordingly.
Written by Sarah Collins
What causes hair loss in women
Female hair loss has several distinct causes — pattern thinning, shedding after a stressor, and medical conditions — and each follows a different path.
Written by Sarah Collins
Why heart attack symptoms differ in women
Women are more likely than men to have heart attacks without crushing chest pain, and the American Heart Association says that difference costs diagnosis time.
Written by Sarah Collins
How women's sleep differs from men's, and why it matters
Women are about 40 percent more likely than men to have insomnia, and sleep problems shift with each hormonal life stage from menstruation to menopause.
Written by Sarah Collins
What causes chronic pelvic pain in women
Chronic pelvic pain affects an estimated 15 percent of US women of reproductive age, and it usually has more than one contributing cause.
Written by Sarah Collins
How hormones trigger migraines in women
Migraine is roughly three times more common in women than men, and for most of them the monthly hormone cycle is part of the story.
Written by Sarah Collins
Why autoimmune conditions disproportionately affect women
About 80 percent of people with autoimmune disease are women — immunology, the X chromosome, and sex hormones all appear to contribute to the gap.
Written by Sarah Collins
Why thyroid disorders are so much more common in women
Women are five to eight times more likely than men to develop a thyroid problem — the reasons span autoimmunity, hormones, and life stages unique to female physiology.
Written by Sarah Collins
Why urinary tract infections keep coming back for so many women
Recurrent UTIs follow anatomy, bacterial behavior, and life stage — and the evidence supports a short list of strategies that actually reduce them.
Written by Sarah Collins