Women's health

There are several ways women can build self-compassion to adopt a kinder, less self-critical attitude to the self.

Lydia Brown, Kiira Gavralas, Christina Bryant

The Practitioner’s Toolkit for Managing Menopause has now been updated and is available to everyone, not just medical practitioners.

Sasha Taylor, Chandima Hemachandra, Susan Davis

New research has found notable inconsistencies in how different medical schools approach the teaching of women’s cardiac health, prompting calls for more comprehensive education on this topic.  

Aphakorn Hasdarngkul, Shivany Vignarajan, Annemarie Hennessy

A new tool, called the Raising Awareness Tool for Endometriosis (RATE), has been developed to help prompt early conversations between health providers and women about endometriosis-related symptoms, in efforts to improve early detection.

Jacqueline Frayne, Magdalena Simonis, Alan Lam

A second National Action Plan for Endometriosis is vital to help improve care and the quality of life for women with this condition.

Cecilia Ng, Gita Mishra, Grant Montgomery, Jason Abbott

The way we talk about and value women’s health needs to change because too many women have painful periods and experience awful side effects from contraception, writes Dr Aajuli Shukla.

Aajuli Shukla

Despite endometriosis being common among women in Australia, it remains unknown which patients will benefit from surgery, prompting the need for more local research, write Dr Samantha Mooney and Associate Professor Sarah Holdsworth-Carson.

Samantha Mooney, Sarah Holdsworth-Carson