Fifth Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services AUTHORS:US Preventive Services Task Force The Affordable Care Act mandates that the US Preventive Services Task Force make an annual report to Congress, and this year’s report calls for a focus on women’s health beyond reproductive health issues. They identified five “high […]
gender research, Policy, prevention, research, USPSTF
Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases. Springer Co-Editors: Dr. Sabra Klein and Dr. Craig Roberts Dr. Sabra Klein, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has long been an advocate of not only including more females in […]
Immunization, immunology, infectious disease, Microbiology, Vaccine
6 reasons to be skeptical of the new “Female Viagra” There is much controversy over the August 18, 2015 FDA approval of a new drug, Filbanserin which purportedly will treat condition of “Female Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, which was renamed “Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder in 2013. An interesting article by Julia Bellez in Vox.com summarizes […]
female viagra, libido, Pharmacology, sexual dysfunction
Women are missing in trials of drugs and vaccines for HIV SGWHC applauds the work of Dr. Mirjam Curno, managing editor of the Journal of the International AIDS Society. This review, published in the September 8 issue, was a PubMed search to identify studies of AIDS antiretroviral drugs (ARV), vaccines (VAX), and […]
AIDS, Antiretroviral, HIV, immunology, infectious disease, NIH, Pharmacology, Vaccine
