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WOMEN'S HEALTH THREAD
This is such an important issue: @Dr_Black is one of 1000s affected.
Women’s pain & symptoms are routinely dismissed or disbelieved. This happens at every stage of the health system: from research, to diagnosis, to treatment.
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This is such an important issue: @Dr_Black is one of 1000s affected.
Women’s pain & symptoms are routinely dismissed or disbelieved. This happens at every stage of the health system: from research, to diagnosis, to treatment.
1/8 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8480271/We-ban-mesh-good.html
I am one of the politicians @loisrogersnews from @DailyMailUK spoke to. I have ALWAYS been willing to discuss this ON THE RECORD. It's a betrayal of women that others won't.
Women are consistently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated with grave or fatal consequences.
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Women are consistently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated with grave or fatal consequences.
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Things are worse for some groups of women - for example, in the UK, black women are 5 times more likely than white women to die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth.
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Historically, medical and clinical trials fail to carry out adequate tests on female subjects or don't bother at all. For example: the safety tests on a female libido drug (Addyi) were carried out on 23 men and only 2 women, before the product went to market.
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Diagnosis is another fault line. Studies show that women are routinely diagnosed significantly later than men in relation to more than 700 diseases. For cancer, women were diagnosed two and a half years later than men. For diabetes, four and a half years later.
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This is pervasive structural so political will & decisive action are needed.
As @WEP_UK's candidate for Mayor I am campaigning to establish the first ever Women’s Health Research Institute in London.
@SadiqKhan you can make a start on this now, if you want to: let's talk.
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As @WEP_UK's candidate for Mayor I am campaigning to establish the first ever Women’s Health Research Institute in London.
@SadiqKhan you can make a start on this now, if you want to: let's talk.
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Data and research are essential to identify and address the issues that lead to health inequalities for women.
London is home to many of the world's best research hospitals, most accomplished medical professionals, and titans of medical research such as the Wellcome Trust.
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London is home to many of the world's best research hospitals, most accomplished medical professionals, and titans of medical research such as the Wellcome Trust.
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Corona virus has highlighted the importance of being purposeful and deliberate about examining health policy and outcomes through the lens of how men and women differently affected. The time to act is NOW. Women and everyone deserves better than the current status quo.
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