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amandavertigo.bsky.social
@amandavertigo.bsky.social
F&B Sustainability Advocate, Wine Director & Chef. Part time musician, full time nerd. I REALLY like women's sports.
Um, what?!
March 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Something like 5% of medical research centers women, with 4% going to cancer research, and among the remaining 1%, 25% of that is for fertility. %0.75 of all health research for every possible thing about women's health that isn't cancer or pregnancy.
February 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"This was split into 4% for women’s cancers and 1% for all other women-specific health conditions, with 25% of that further limited to fertility research" -https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-024-00253-7#ref-CR1. 🧵
February 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"In 2022, $27 million (0.082%) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research budget supported endometriosis studies, averaging $2 per patient. For comparison, NIH spent $31.30 per diabetes patient and $130.07 per Crohn’s disease patient –" swhr.org/rewriting-en... 🧵
Rewriting Endometriosis Education for Providers and Policymakers - Society for Women's Health Research
In this secondary blog, SWHR shares highlights from the interdisciplinary working group roundtable discussion held about endometriosis, in September 2023.
swhr.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM