3.28.22 | Policy
Women’s Health Policy Agenda Expands Focus Areas for 2022
The 2022 Women’s Health Policy Agenda outlines policy priorities across five key areas—public health, research and clinical trials, lifespan issues, coverage and access, and the biomedical research workforce.
3.28.22 | Diagnostics
Assessing and Promoting Bone Health Across the Lifespan
SWHR hosts a series of public forums to share educational information about the importance and value of innovative diagnostics throughout the lifespan and across disease states and conditions. This event discusses how to improve health outcomes for diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women, with a focus on bone health.
3.14.22 | Bone Health
Bone Health Roundtable: Importance of Women’s Bone Health Throughout the Lifespan
SWHR convened an interdisciplinary Bone Health Working Group of health care providers, researchers, patient advocates, and policy leaders for a closed, roundtable meeting in April 2022. During the roundtable, the Working Group discussed scientific and policy issues in women’s bone health, including strategies for fracture prevention in at-risk women.
6.16.21 | Bone Health
Exploring the Connection Between Psoriatic Arthritis and Bone Health
More than 8 million people in the United States are living with psoriasis, a chronic immune-mediated condition where skin cells multiply 10 times faster than the normal rate.
5.24.21 | Bone Health
Managing Bone Health for Endometriosis and Fibroid Patients
Do endometriosis and uterine fibroids impact bone health? SWHR explores the connection between these gynecological conditions, estrogen, and healthy bones.
4.22.21 | Bone Health
Women’s Health Innovation Forum Series: Bone Health and Aging
May is National Osteoporosis Month! About 80% of the approximate 10 million Americans with osteoporosis are women. A woman’s risk […]
4.19.21 | Bone Health
Report on Osteoporosis-Related Bone Fractures Reveals High Burden on Women and Society
Implementing broader efforts around the prevention of osteoporosis and treatment of related fractures would have a major impact on women’s quality of life.
12.18.20 | Bone Health
Osteoarthritis Research and Care: The Role of Sex and Gender Differences
SWHR published a review in the Journal of Women’s Health highlighting research gaps and unmet needs around sex and genders differences in osteoarthritis (OA) research, diagnosis, care, and education.
12.16.20 | Bone Health
Understanding the Impact of Sex and Gender in Osteoarthritis: Assessing Research Gaps and Unmet Needs
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) published a review in The Journal of Women’s Health assessing research gaps and […]
