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You`re not imagining the pain. 🤍
If you have endometriosis, you already know the story: years of being told it`s "just a bad period." Doctors who shrug. A diagnosis that can take anywhere from 4 to 11 years—if it comes at all. As many as 6 in 10 cases are never diagnosed.
For a condition that affects 1 in 10 women, that`s not a gap. It`s a canyon.
But here`s what gives us hope: ✨researchers are finally asking new questions. Dr. Amparo Martinez Perez, a WHAM Edge Award recipient, is investigating something most people never think about when they hear "endometriosis"—the immune system.
🔬Her work could lead to earlier diagnosis and treatments that go after the root cause, not just the symptoms.
This is the kind of research that changes lives. And it needs funding to happen.
If you`ve ever felt unseen by the system, this one`s for you. 🔗 Link in bio to help fund the science that could finally give women answers.
#Endometriosis #EndoWarrior #WomensHealth #EndoAwareness #WHAMNow #InvisibleIllness #ChronicPain #WomensHealthResearch
Different diseases. Same blind spot. 👇
Alzheimer`s. Lung Cancer. Diabetes. Lyme. HPV. Totally unrelated conditions—with one thing in common: women are hit harder, and studied less.
→ Women face nearly twice the lifetime risk of Alzheimer`s as men.
→ Non-smoking women are more than 2x as likely as non-smoking men to develop lung cancer.
→ Women in or past menopause face a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
→ Women are more likely to have long-term symptoms after Lyme disease.
→ About 80% of women will contract at least one type of HPV in their lifetime.
The gaps are real. But so is the chance to close them. 💡
That`s what WHAM funds—research that finally puts women`s health first.
🔗 Link in bio to be part of it.
#WomensHealth #WHAMNow #WomensHealthFacts #WomensHealthResearch #CloseTheGap #HealthEquity
🚨 1 BILLION+ women will be living in or beyond menopause by 2030.
So why are we still playing catch-up? 👀
Menopause is under-researched, under-taught, and under-resourced. But that’s starting to change.
WHAM brought together leading across healthcare to ask the questions that can’t wait:
🔬 What’s missing from menopause research?
💊 Where will the next generation of treatments come from?
⚕️ What does the FDA’s hormone-therapy warning change mean?
⌚ Could wearables transform menopause care?
The future of menopause care is being built now.
Join us for the release of our new White Paper and to hear from the leading experts on what’s changing, what’s coming, and why the next era of menopause care can’t wait.
📅 September 24 | 1–2 PM ET
Link in bio to register and sign up to receive the white paper
#WomensHealth #Menopause #Midlife #WHAMNow
You read that right🙃 Every year we wait, hundreds of thousands of women go undiagnosed, dismissed, or misdiagnosed. This isn’t a ‘someday’ problem — it’s happening right now. Repost this so the next woman gets believed.
#WHAMNow #WomensHealth
Did you know that women weren’t required in clinical research until 1993? 😮
We’ve spent decades building our understanding of health without fully understanding half the population.
🔸Only 44% of American women know that heart disease is their #1 health risk.
🔸Just 6% of sports science research focuses on the female body.
🔸80% of Americans with osteoporosis are women.
🔸Over a lifetime, closing the women’s health gap could give women more than 500 additional healthy days.
🔸Hashimoto’s disease is 7-10x more common in women than men.
Support WHAM to fund women’s health research closing these gaps. Click the fundraiser above.
#WomensHealth #WHAMNow #WomensHealthFacts
We can land on the moon, stream movies anywhere, and put AI in our pockets… but we still don’t fully understand women’s health?
Follow @whamnow to learn how you can make a difference.🌟
#WHAMNow #WomensHealth
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Most cancer studies still default to male models, overlooking critical sex differences in how cancers start, spread, and respond to therapy. Lung cancer now kills more women than breast, ovarian, and cervical cancers combined, and rates are soaring among young, non-smoking women. Boosting sex-based cancer research will reveal why—and lead to breakthroughs in screening, care, and survival. Help us accelerate that work.
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