medicine

Women have long reported doctors not taking them seriously, and recent research indicates physicians do treat female pain more dismissively than they do men's. Maybe the phenomenon occurs in part due to the way women's bodily autonomy has…

Hugh Travers plays have been long-listed for the Bruntwood Prize, the Verity Bargate Award and the Papatango New Writing Prize. His new play These Stupid Things which is running at Smock Alley Theatre is a truly excellent production…

Fewer men than women second-guess themselves before venturing outside, or down a dark street, alone at night. Far fewer children born to homeowners, than children born to refugees, know what it's like to go to bed hungry or to not know…

As women, there is nothing more important than our health and the health of our kids. When it comes to illnesses and complications, though, there are some aspects that we cannot control. Thankfully, there are many others that we can avoid…

Cannabis usage in those who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis is suggested to reduce inflammatory factors which causes a trademark symptom of the disease, chronic pain. Research by Irish company, GreenLight Medicines, indicated that the…

A little while back, I inquired about what it would take to have a tubal ligation. The reasons why are immaterial — what struck me was the downright antediluvian responses many physicians give women requesting the procedure. I soon became…

No one ever said growing old was a job for the feint of heart, but in America, many seniors face tougher hardships than dealing with increasing aches and pains. Ever-rising numbers of elderly Americans experience financial hardships that…

When you think of healthcare, you might have images of sick people sitting next to one another in a physician's office waiting room for hours trying not to cough or sneeze on each other. Or, you may have images of hospital beds and IV poles…

When you get to the root of a problem or issue, you usually find what’s causing it. In the case of prejudice, whether it’s racial, ethnic, or sexual, what you’ll find fueling that prejudice is usually ignorance and fear. Prejudice often…

“You could mansplain in person, perhaps. Tip around to everyone’s house and have a chat,” Kate O’Connell quipped to Peadar Tóibín during the third and final day of the Select Committee on Health deliberation on the Health (Regulation of…