Health Equity

Women across the country are searching for answers to improve their health. They’re trying to manage flare-ups from autoimmune diseases. They’re dealing with chronic pain. They’re coping with postpartum depression. For these experiences and more, we still have much work to do....

Research into chronic conditions affecting women is significantly lacking, and the National Institutes of Health and other agencies should do more to investigate issues that lead to worse medical treatment for women, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says....