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Character, Not Just Credentials: What Pre-Med Discourse Says About the Future of Medicine

An Interview with Dr. Rekha Srinivasan The Story For this month’s OvaCare article, I sat down with Dr. Rekha Srinivasan, a professor at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Sri, as she is known to her students, teaches the notoriously challenging subject of Organic Chemistry to hundreds of pre-med students each semester. Recently, she has noticed a concerning trend: a small but significant number of these students are making negative and personal comments about their profes

Neko Dossett

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Disparities in Neurodevelopmental Conditions in Women: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice

When psychiatric conditions are studied in clinical trials, women are often excluded from the study sample. This creates a critical problem: women are constantly over- and underdiagnosed, depending on the psychiatric condition. Up until recently, these trials only included males because female reproductive hormones often influence results. Reproductive hormones constantly fluctuate in the female body, but most scientists consider these fluctuations as variables that cannot be

Charithma Peiris

Sep 75 min read

Why Women Are Less Likely to Receive CPR

With World Heart Day fast approaching on September 29th, it’s important to remember that CPR is an important lifesaving tool during cardiac emergencies. However, an important question remains: When cardiac arrest happens, does everyone have the same chance of receiving it? Art by Shea Davis Research suggests the answer is no. Women are 14% less likely than men to receive bystander CPR during cardiac arrest [1]. There are several possible reasons for this, including fear of ca

Fadia Naqash

Sep 75 min read

Fertility Decline: A Health Concern or a Concern About Women’s Choices?

Every few months, another headline seems to warn that women are having fewer children. Fertility rates are “falling,” populations are “shrinking,” and younger generations are supposedly headed toward a demographic crisis. These trends are real, but how we talk about them raises a more complicated question: Is declining fertility actually a women’s health crisis, or have women’s reproductive choices simply become the focus of a much larger social concern? Image taken from...

Sameera Devulapally

Sep 75 min read

Beyond Burnout: How Chronic Stress Changes the Female Body

Why is it that 93% of women feel dismissed when seeking help for physical and mental health issues? This question becomes even more troubling when considering that women are nearly twice as likely as men to show symptoms of depression and experience higher levels of chronic stress. While short-term stress is a normal biological response to challenges, chronic stress can have lasting effects on the body. Its symptoms are often attributed to “just stress”, anxiety, or hormon

Akithmi Koththigoda

Sep 74 min read

The Hidden Cost of Ovulation: Linking Inflammation to Ovarian Cancer

What if one of the most regular biological processes in the female body also offered clues to understanding one of the deadliest gynecologic cancers? Although ovulation is an essential part of the reproductive cycle, the temporary responses associated with it, provide insight into the development of ovarian cancer. Understanding how inflammation may influence cellular changes over time could help researchers uncover new ways to identify and prevent ovarian cancer. What is Ovu

Akithmi Koththigoda

Sep 73 min read

Let’s Talk Menopause

The first thought many of us have when hearing the word ‘menopause’ is the stage of life when a woman stops menstruating. In reality, menopause is a decades-long event that is characterized by many inconvenient symptoms and side effects — but despite it being an event in every woman’s life, most menopausal women are rarely informed of methods that could preserve and improve their quality of life after this life-changing hormonal crash. What is Menopause? What Is Menopause?

Juhi Madala

Sep 75 min read

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