Women's health
Editorial
Healthcare
Australia cannot afford to ignore these 1100 – or 13.4 million – women
Tackling medical misogyny is about ensuring the wellbeing of a population Australia cannot afford to lose.
- The Herald's View
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Hospitals in crisis
Hospital stripped of trainee doctors over staff, patient welfare concerns
The Central Coast’s only public obstetric and gynaecology service is about to be severely depleted with the temporary loss of accredited trainee doctors.
- by Kate Aubusson
Exclusive
Medical Misogyny
Queenie’s period pain gets so excruciating her legs shake – but her GP dismissed it as normal
Parents of teenagers who experience severe period symptoms, including debilitating pain, are struggling to get the right help.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Opinion
Health
When it’s not my back aching, I’m aching for conversations like we used to have about love and lust
I can’t resist a test, and one I recently had outside my local Baker’s Delight has taken me down a rabbit hole.
- by Kate Halfpenny
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Hospitals in crisis
This hospital will soon have 12 births a day. Women in labour may be raced down a highway
Women giving birth could be loaded into ambulances and raced 100km down the M1 from Monday because of a critical staffing shortage.
- by Kate Aubusson
Investigation
Medical Misogyny
‘It’s all in your head’: How medical gender bias affects Australian women
What is medical misogyny? How do we know it exists? Our reporters reveal the background to their investigative series for the Morning Edition podcast.
Opinion
Medical Misogyny
Doctors don’t hate women, but we can be idiots when it comes to their health
Just don’t call it medical misogyny. I’m not a misogynist. But it’s fair to say that medicine doesn’t understand women as well as it should.
- by Nicholas Wilcken
Australian women lose class action over controversial medical device
Justice Andrew Keogh said chronic pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding commonly affected women of reproductive age.
- by Aisha Dow
At 31, Kirsty had just been pregnant – but she suddenly faced a ‘brutal’ reality
The months-long “medical limbo” Kirsty Costa fell into while trying to get a diagnosis has now helped to inform new guidelines for doctors.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Investigation
Medical Misogyny
‘I thought I was insane’: Doctors kept ignoring Keira’s pain. It almost killed her
Keira Rumble was a victim of a poorly researched health phenomenon known as medical misogyny. Its consequences can be fatal.
- by Kate Aubusson and Wendy Tuohy
Investigation
Medical Misogyny
‘These mistakes cost lives’: The medical bias that affects half of Australia
Nikki Purtill was lucky to survive an undiagnosed cyst on her brain. Her experience is part of the under-researched phenomenon of medical misogyny.
- by Aisha Dow, Wendy Tuohy, Emily Kaine and Kate Aubusson
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