COVID: Medical experts step up after dismissing menstrual changes
Thousands of women have reported changes to their regular patterns after receiving a COVID-19 jab.
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Thousands of women have reported changes to their regular patterns after receiving a COVID-19 jab.
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The author examines the medical science gender gap. Picture: iStock If we want an equal society, we need to ensure women have access to healthcare services and treatments that meet their specific needs, and diagnostic tools that don't favour men, writes Sipho Mamize. There has been a lot of talk about gender equality over the past years. One sphere that has been neglected and ignored, it seems, is the medical science gender gap. We must talk about this, particularly on International Day of Action for Women's Health, a permanent fixture on the global awareness calendar si...
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStock (NEW YORK) — When Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, and Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, each say they experienced unexpected menstrual cycles after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, they did what researchers do and began to collect data. Clancy conferred with Lee, who said several colleagues had also reported differing menstrual symptoms, and issued a single tweet in late February explaining her own symptoms and asking if anyone else had experienced a...