The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
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The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
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A growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has renewed concerns about infectious disease preparedness. Learn how Ebola spreads, current vaccine efforts, symptoms, treatment options, and why public health experts are paying close attention.
Recent hantavirus outbreaks have sparked public concern and a surge in online searches. Here are the answers to the most common questions people are asking about symptoms, transmission, treatment, and emerging research.
Dr. Michael A. Schmidt has been named the recipient of the 2026 Joseph P. Kerwin MD Award, one of the aerospace medicine field’s highest honors, recognizing groundbreaking contributions to space medicine and human physiology research during spaceflight.
Around the world, women face devastating inequities—from brutal violence and denied rights to health care neglect that ignores their unique biology. Even in the U.S., maternal mortality rates remain shockingly high, especially among Black women. As Dr. Marianne J. Legato reveals, the global disregard for women’s well-being not only destroys lives but robs humanity of immense talent and progress. We must act to protect women’s rights, health, and future.
Women are still underrepresented in medical research. But thanks to trailblazers like cardiologist Marianne Legato and patient advocate Carolyn Thomas, that’s starting to change
“Closing the gap would give the 3.9 billion women in the world today an extra seven healthy days a year, or an average of 500 days over a lifetime.” Sheila Uria Veliz and Mehek Bapna are not related, at least not by blood, but they share something similar. Both young women had their teenage years upended by debilitating illnesses that took years to diagnose.
Our video is an allegorical conversation between Prometheus, the Titan who defied Zeus and gave humans the gift of fire, and the human spirit, represented by Galileo Galilei, whose 15th century exploration of celestial bodies was the initial step in our achievement of another transformative triumph of mankind: our ability to leave the earth and travel to -and establish human settlements on -other celestial bodies.
When scientific scholars look back on our current time period, they will call it the beginning of the Genomic Era. In just the past ten years, scientists have achieved techniques that not only transform existing life forms, but also create entirely new species.
Nothing is more evident in clinical medicine than the complex and interactive relationship between human biology and the environment in which individuals find themselves.
“Everything flows, nothing stands still. Nothing endures but change.” -Heraclitus
As Heraclitus pointed out, everything in the world inexorably changes over time. Medical science and medical perspectives are no exceptions.