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- Improve Diversity and Access to Clinical Trials – Increase diversity and improve access to clinical trials.
- Mine the Data – Ensure studies analyze and report results by sex, and create a WHAM Accountability Index.
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5 women’s health facts more people should know:
1️⃣ By 2035, only 6 states are projected to have enough OB-GYNs.
2️⃣ 64% of common medical interventions are less effective or less accessible for women.
3️⃣ Fewer than 50% of patients living with endometriosis have a documented diagnosis.
4️⃣ More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
5️⃣ Women are 14% less likely to receive CPR from bystanders during public cardiac arrests.
More people should know this.
Support WHAM’s work to accelerate women’s health research and investment.
🔗 Link in bio.
#WomensHealth #WomensHealthFacts #WomensHealthData #WHAMNow #3Not30
Women already drive healthcare. 🏥
The appointments booked.
The prescriptions picked up.
The care decisions made for themselves and their families.
Women make 80% of healthcare decisions — and spend billions more across the healthcare system.
With a growing share of the $34T wealth transfer ahead, women will have even more power to shape what healthcare looks like next.
Better data. Sex-based research. More investment in women’s health.
👉 2026 WHAM Report — link in bio.
#TheWHAMReport #WomensHealth #WomensHealthData #WHAMNow #3Not30
Better healthcare starts with actually including women. 👀 Follow for more women’s health facts, data, and solutions.
#WomensHealth #WomensHealthcare #Healthcare #WHAMNow #3Not30
⚠️ Non-smoking women: you need to know this.
WHAM has been showing that lung cancer is increasingly affecting women with no smoking history at all and it kills more women each year than breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer combined.
💡 Here’s what we know:
• ~1 in 5 lung cancer cases occur in people who’ve never smoked
• Among people under 65, nonsmoking women are increasingly overrepresented
• Rates are declining in men faster than women (~3% vs. ~1.5% per year)
The reality: we still don’t fully understand why.
Our models for risk, screening, and research weren’t built with these realities in mind.
At WHAM, we’re focused on changing that — accelerating data, research, and investment in women’s health so we can catch disease earlier and close critical gaps.
🔗 Link in bio to watch the WHAM Virtual Roundtable: Cancer: Rising Risk, Missed Signals, and the Path Forward recording + listen to the full Scientific American podcast.
#WomensHealth #LungCancer #EarlyDetection #CancerPrevention #WHAMNow #3Not30
⏪ Women’s health is far behind where it should be:
▪️Women spend 25% more of their lives in debilitating health than men.
▪️The speculum looks almost identical to when it was first designed in the 19th century.
▪️Women are 75% more likely to use digital health compared to men.
▪️The women’s health market is expanding and projected to grow to $58B by 2029.
▪️In 2020, the U.S. maternal mortality rate was more than 2 times higher than that of 10 other high-income countries.
Ignoring the health of half the population doesn’t just hurt care—
It costs lives, slows innovation, and leaves massive economic value on the table.
👉 At WHAM, we’re advancing women’s health research, innovation & investment
To save lives and boost the economy
💥Support WHAM to help close the gaps in women’s health: whamnow.org/donate
#WomensHealth #WomensHealthData #WomensHealthFacts #WHAMNow #3Not30
🏃♀️ Women have spent decades training, competing, and living in bodies science barely studied.
That’s what Gatorade + Venus Williams’ new Body of Science initiative is setting out to change. 👏
The company is making a multi-year investment in women’s hydration + nutrition research across critical life stages like:
✨ Menstruation
✨ Pregnancy
✨ Perimenopause
🎙️ Venus Williams said science built for women should be “the standard, not the exception.”
📊 What to know:
• Only 6% of sports science research focuses exclusively on women
• 65 million women say dehydration impacts their health, energy, mood + focus
• 500 women have already participated in early research
When women are studied:
➡️ Innovation accelerates
➡️ Outcomes improve
➡️ Science works better for everyone
At WHAM, this is exactly why we exist: to accelerate women’s health research, investment, and innovation so women are no longer treated as an afterthought in science.
🔗 Read more at the link in bio.
#WomensHealth #WomenInSports #SportsScience #Innovation #WHAMNow #3Not30
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Women are 51% of the population but receive only a fraction of biomedical research funding. Sex differences are still often ignored, even in diseases that hit women hardest. Advancing sex-based research closes that gap, sparks innovation, and delivers more precise care for everyone. Support the future of health—for women, and for all.
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Four out of five Americans with autoimmune disease are women—40 million lives impacted—yet the science hasn’t kept up. In 2019, only 7 % of the NIH’s rheumatoid arthritis budget focused on women. Dedicated funding can pinpoint why women are so vulnerable and drive better diagnostics, therapies, and quality of life. Fuel research that will change lives.
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Women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer’s cases and are twice as likely to suffer depression—yet we still don’t know why. Targeted, sex-specific studies can reveal the biological and clinical differences that unlock earlier diagnosis, smarter treatments, and healthier minds. Your gift drives that discovery.
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Donate to Cancer Research
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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Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, but it remains underfunded, under-researched, and underdiagnosed. Nearly half of women over 20 have cardiovascular disease, pregnancy heart risks are widespread, and women are 50% more likely to die after a heart attack. Focused research can rewrite those odds—changing how heart disease is detected, treated, and prevented in women. Invest in saving women’s hearts.
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