Peer-Reviewed Articles
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
03.15.22
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) published a commentary in the Women’s Health Issues, examining the gaps in research; severity in disease burden, psychological burden, caregiver burden; and policy opportunities as it relates to autoimmune (characterized by antigen presence) and immune-mediated (broadly involving abnormal activity of the immune system) skin disease in women. Insights... Read more »
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
12.07.21
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) published a paper in the Journal of Women’s Health, capturing the current landscape of HPV-related anogenital cancers, their effects on women’s health, and recommended areas in which to address gaps in primary and secondary prevention approaches to improve access and health outcomes for women. These insights were collected from a series of interdisciplinary meetings and events with expert researchers, clinicians,... Read more »
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
10.20.21
SWHR published a report in the Biology of Sex Differences journal capturing insights and recommendations from an interdisciplinary Women’s Eye Health Working Group, convened by SWHR.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
08.17.21
SWHR published a report in the Journal of Women's Health capturing themes and recommendations from an interdisciplinary Uterine Fibroids Working Group, convened by SWHR.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
08.03.21
SWHR published an article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on endometriosis and stigma.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
07.06.21
SWHR published a perspective article in the journal Menopause with recommendations for improving care for individuals during the menopause transition.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
12.16.20
SWHR published a review in the Journal of Women’s Health assessing research gaps and unmet needs around sex and genders differences in osteoarthritis (OA).
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
02.18.19
Although endometriosis affects nearly 10% of reproductive-age women, the disease remains underfunded and under-researched, according to an SWHR expert review in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
10.22.18
Improving knowledge about sex differences in cell biology in the female and male lower urinary tract may help stimulate breakthroughs in the diagnosis and management of urinary dysfunction for both women and men, according to this SWHR paper in the journal Biology of Sex Differences.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
08.01.18
To decrease the substantial health and economic burden of migraine on individuals and society, researchers need to examine and address how the disease differs between women and men, according to SWHR's peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Women's Health.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
06.12.18
To prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease, scientists need to better understand how the disease differs between women and men, according to SWHR's peer-reviewed paper in journal Alzheimer's & Dementia.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
10.26.16
Members of SWHR's Sleep Network summarize the data on certain sleep medications, such as zolpidem, which exhibit sex-specific pharmacological profiles, in this peer-reviewed article in Current Sleep Medicine Reports.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
07.01.16
In this Letter to the Editor, members of SWHR's Network on Urological Health in Women strongly urge health care providers to actively engage in conversations with women about urological health during the annual well-woman visit.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
06.10.16
Experts recommend research, education, and policy changes that have the potential to increase awareness and improve women’s urological health at all stages of life, in this SWHR peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Women's Health.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
03.31.16
In this Biology of Sex Differences review, SWHR's Cardiovascular Disease Network compiles an inventory of sex-specific strategies and methods for the study of women and cardiovascular health and disease across the lifespan.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
07.01.14
SWHR authored this peer-reviewed report in the Journal of Women’s Health to summarize expert discussions from its roundtable event on the role of sex differences in sleep and the state of sleep research in women.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
02.01.12
In February 2012, Clinical Cardiology published a special issue featuring scholarly manuscripts by expert clinicians/scientists from SWHR's Cardiovascular Disease Network.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
12.12.11
Members of SWHR's Cardiovascular Disease Network authored this Biology of Sex Differences review on the importance of accounting for sex in the design and interpretation of cardiovascular disease studies.