New evidence on autism, autoimmune disease and heart attacks shows women diagnosed later than men, for overlapping reasons. Cardiologists, researchers and England’s health service have begun to change the tools and rules behind those delays. In Sweden, autism...
Diagnosis of autism in girls is catching up with boys in Scotland and Sweden. In a large US health system, though, girls and women were still diagnosed an average of 3.4 years later than boys and men. Scotland’s autism diagnosis gap between boys and girls is...
Cardiologists have rewritten the international definition of a heart attack, calling for separate blood test limits for women and men. The change is meant to cut the number of heart attacks in women that go unrecognised, and women can act on their own symptoms now. In...
In 2017, a third of women surveyed had waited more than two years for a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome. The condition now has a new name, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and its backers hope it will lead to faster diagnosis and better long-term care....
Five-year breast cancer survival ranges from more than 90% in Australia and Japan to 29.9% in Somalia, the first global estimates show. Countries from Mauritius to Denmark show the gap can narrow when cancers are found early and treated quickly. In Mauritius,...
