It’s difficult to fathom that the health of half the world’s population is underserved. But it’s a hard truth. There are many conditions that disproportionately impact women. Other conditions and diseases affect women in different ways than men. Decades of research excluding women from clinical trials and investment decisions in male-dominated board rooms have ignored these facts. Though an increasing number of women are now managing investments and driving the research, it’s all still woefully behind. In BioWorld’s new report, Healing the health divide, we’ve highlighted the disparities.

Primary aldosteronism (PA), caused by bilateral adrenal hyperplasia or aldosteronomas, is the leading cause of endocrine hypertension, with an estimated prevalence of 10%-20% in patients in tertiary hospitals.

Adipopharma SAS has secured funding to begin phase I trials of PATAS, a compound with a novel mechanism for treating type 2 diabetes.

Researchers from Congruence Therapeutics Inc. have described the development of a mouse model of genetic obesity with a clinically relevant, naturally occurring human melanocortin MC4 receptor (MC4R) mutation.

Researchers from Adipo Therapeutics LLC presented data from preclinical studies that aimed to assess the γ-secretase inhibitor ADPO-002 (dibenzazepine) for the treatment of obesity.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found that blocking the neuron-released peptide CGRP decreases pain sensitivity and reduces lesion size in endometriosis. Endometriosis is a painful, steroid-dependent inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to that of the endometrial lining grows and establishes outside the uterine mucosa.