7.14.22 | Endometriosis Gynecologic Network Meeting Spotlights Areas for Endometriosis Research
SWHR's Gynecologic Health Network meeting in June 2022 covered the connections between endometriosis and pelvic pain and abnormal sleep in women.
6.14.22 | Women's Health Perspective Acknowledging the Dual Realities of Parent and Caregiver: A Mother’s Journey with Her Daughter’s Narcolepsy
Tammy Anderson, an advocate and volunteer with Wake Up Narcolepsy, shared her experience caring for her child with narcolepsy.
4.25.22 | Sleep Rising to a Better Tomorrow: Addressing the Impact of Narcolepsy on Women’s Health
SWHR's interdisciplinary working group of health care providers, researchers, patients and patient advocates, and policy leaders met to discuss the state of narcolepsy research and treatment for women.
3.18.22 | Women's Health Perspective Living with Sleep Apnea
Sarah Gorman, patient advocate and president of the Alliance of Sleep Apnea Partners (ASAP), shared her story of living with sleep apnea.
2.14.22 | Sleep Narcolepsy Program Roundtable: The Impact of Narcolepsy on Women’s Health Across the Lifespan
SWHR convened an interdisciplinary working group to discuss scientific and policy issues around narcolepsy in women, including strategies for better symptom management and how to improve access to treatments and care.
5.11.20 | Sleep COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Nightmare for Women’s Sleep
Women are more prone to certain sleep difficulties than men. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating these sleep problems.
8.13.19 | Clinician Gender Differences in Sleep
Healthy sleep can be especially elusive for women, and the barriers that they face in maintaining good sleep health are often misunderstood or overlooked. SWHR convened an interdisciplinary scientific roundtable focused on understanding the role of sex differences in sleep and the state of women’s sleep health research.
3.11.19 | Sleep Struggling to ‘Spring Forward’? Rethink Your Sleep Routine
Science is telling us more clearly all the time that we are setting ourselves up for failure by ignoring sleep as a critical part of the equation for good health.
