Closing the Gap in Women’s Health Research

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At Hologic, this broader view of women’s health shapes how the company listens to women, studies gaps in care and works with partners to help advance better health outcomes for women and, ultimately, all patients. According to Byerly, improving health outcomes starts with understanding.

What Happened

That includes differences across sex, race, ethnicity, age and other factors that can shape health risks, symptoms and outcomes. Most diseases that affect women are not women-specific conditions.

• Hologic employees wear white to raise awareness of uterine fibroids, a condition that affects up to 80% of women but often goes undiagnosed or untreated for years.

• Research shows that 95% of diseases affecting women also affect men.4 But many of these diseases can affect women differently.

• Studying it more deeply, supporting it more consistently and investing in it more intentionally are what will drive lasting change.

Key Details

The same principle applies across healthcare. When sex differences are not fully studied or understood, patients may face delayed diagnoses, missed symptoms or care that does not fully meet their needs.

• Seeing women’s health more fully is the first step.

• The choices healthcare leaders make today will shape how women’s health is understood and treated for generations to come.

• At Hologic, teams across the company are focused on advancing women’s health by elevating women’s voices, generating data-driven insights and working with partners around the world to turn those insights into action.

Why It Matters

Some conditions that primarily affect women remain underdiagnosed, undertreated or too often dismissed as normal. Endometriosis is another women’s health condition that remains widely misunderstood and often misdiagnosed.

• Policymakers, clinicians, researchers, innovators, payers and patients all play a role.

• Closing the women’s health gap will require action across the healthcare ecosystem.

What Reports Say

Coverage of the story so far points to:

• Continued reporting by Hologic as more details emerge