She was looking for research on pain and women’s health, only to be shocked by how little data she found. “Historically, although this got better, the main funding bodies like the Medical Research Council, the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Trust didn’t particularly favour reproductive health research,” he says. “I think it’s changing now, but for a long time the panels were made up of men who weren’t aware of reproductive health research. Sarah Francis, a spokesperson for the charity, says that although things have improved, women’s health continues to be “overlooked and underfunded”. “Although things are changing, there is and has been a lot of taboo around women’s health issues.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2019 06:56 UTC