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...
Category: Medicine
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...
Asthma in pregnancy: Breathing well for baby
More than 300 million people worldwide are living with asthma, and post-puberty, more women have asthma than men. In Australia, around 12% of women have the condition, and for Indigenous Australian...
Research wrap: Burnout and why it hits women harder
Folks, we need to talk about burnout. Lately, it’s been a constant feature in my newsfeed. See here and here and here. Once upon a time most often an individual condition, it seems as though there...
Online data could be used against people seeking abortions
When the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, many of us who have been studying privacy for vulnerable individuals came to a troubling...
Pregnancy termination is a personal choice
The supreme court ruling to overturn Roe vs Wade in the US has sparked enormous global discussion about women’s bodily autonomy and what should be an indisputable right to decided what happens with...
A Summer of Hope: Elizabeth’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...