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Healing the health divide

Despite women’s health inroads, lackluster funding impedes progress

Nov. 14, 2024
By Karen Carey
While women make up half the world’s population and own two out of every five businesses, there are substantial knowledge gaps about conditions affecting their health – mostly due to decades of research excluding women from clinical trials and investment decisions.
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Healing the health divide

The science of gender-based medicine: many reasons, many manifestations

Nov. 14, 2024
By Anette Breindl
At the BioFuture 2024 conference held in New York in November, Seema Kumar, the CEO of Cure, described women’s health as something that has been directed at the “bikini area.” That “bikini” bias extended to both diseases and their causes – women’s health covered the breasts and reproductive system, and its causes were hormonal. Both concepts are far too narrow.
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Healing a health divide (that’s long overdue)

Nov. 14, 2024
By Lynn Yoffee
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.
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BioFuture 2024

Half the population’s health needs are underserved

Nov. 8, 2024
By Lee Landenberger
While the size of the market is enormous, drug development and treatments for women’s health care still lag behind what is offered for men. There has been a renaissance in the past few years, however, led by investors and companies that have wrestled with determining exactly what encompasses women’s health and how to meet its challenges.
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Endocrine/metabolic

Blocking CGRP in endometriosis: two birds with one stone?

Nov. 7, 2024
By Coia Dulsat
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.
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Female doctor and patient

BioFuture 2024: Half the population’s health needs are underserved

Nov. 5, 2024
By Lee Landenberger
While the size of the market is enormous, drug development and treatments for women’s health care still lag behind what is offered for men. There has been a renaissance in the past few years, however, led by investors and companies that have wrestled with determining exactly what encompasses women’s health and how to meet its challenges.
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Female doctor and patient

BioFuture 2024: Half the population’s health needs are underserved

Nov. 4, 2024
By Lee Landenberger
While the size of the market is enormous, drug development and treatments for women’s health care still lag behind what is offered for men. There has been a renaissance in the past few years, however, led by investors and companies that have wrestled with determining exactly what encompasses women’s health and how to meet its challenges.
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Atossa’s breast cancer drug shows promise as preventative option

Nov. 4, 2024
By Jennifer Boggs
Atossa Therapeutics Inc. moved a step closer in its efforts to develop a preventative approach to breast cancer, with top-line data from a phase II study showing (Z)-endoxifen significantly reduced mammographic breast density, while demonstrating a good tolerability profile.
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All-female trials in CVD recognize structural differences

Nov. 1, 2024
By Annette Boyle
Two recent trials in cardiovascular disease took critical steps toward addressing ongoing and deadly disparities in cardiac care by focusing entirely on women.
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Hope for endometriosis as HMI-115 reduces pelvic pain by 50%

Oct. 29, 2024
By Tamra Sami
Hope Medicine Inc. reported positive interim results for monoclonal antibody HMI-115 in a phase II endometriosis trial that saw the mean non-menstrual pelvic pain score reduced by 50%. “HMI-115 is a prolactin receptor blocker, and we're using it to treat endometriosis and some other diseases. It is a first-in-class new mechanism to treat endometriosis,” Hope Medicine CEO Nathan Chen told BioWorld.
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