This article was written by me (Ginger Gorman) for the publication Women's Agenda in my capacity as a freelance journalist. It's republished here with full permission. You can read the original...
Category: Medicine
Nurses redefine patient care during the AIDS crisis
HIV and AIDS devastated communities across Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of this profound health crisis, nurses provided crucial care to those living with and dying from the virus....
Perimenopause: I broke an unspoken rule at the chemist
There’s an unwritten rule at the chemist that you try not to overhear what the person in front of you is discussing with the pharmacist at the “scripts in” counter. This is hard because you are...
‘Success can look very different for everyone’
UC's Professor Michelle Lincoln is profoundly aware of the unique challenges faced by women working in health and medical research. “The mid-career stage is a particularly vulnerable point for...
Summer profile series – inspiring women: Maryam Ghahramani
Over summer, BroadAgenda is featuring a short series of profiles on amazing women and LGBTIQ + folks. You're about to meet Dr Maryam Ghahramani. She's a Lecturer in engineering with the Faculty of...
Endometriosis isn’t funny. Libby doesn’t agree.
Let’s start at the start. What is endometriosis? Who does it impact? Endometriosis is a painful, chronic, incurable illness that affects one in nine people who menstruate. Gynaecologist and author...
Women, inequity and getting the right diagnosis
“Gender bias in health care, whether conscious or not, is rampant and insidious. It is often harmful, sometime fatal, and always unacceptable,” says patient safety advocate and researcher Jen...
Death and dying: A profound experience for prize winner
Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection The Jaguar won the 2023 Stella Prize for Australian women’s and non-binary writers' work. It's an extraordinary and unexpected collection of poems, which...
Tackling our deep discomfort with miscarriage
Every year miscarriage affects up to 150,000 Australians and the people that love them. So why are we so damned bad at dealing with it? Journalist Isabelle Oderberg has written a groundbreaking book...