SexGender Based Health

Women’s Health Today About Women, For Everyone Friday July 22, 2011 8am MST KUNM 89.9fm or www.kunm.org Listen to the promo here: wht-promo 7.22.11 How do sex and gender impact health? Does health policy adequately address systemic problems rooted in the relationships between patient, provider and insurer? Women’s Health Today looks at health from an interdisciplinary and woman-centered perspective, examining the many...

July 13, 2011|By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey / For the Booster Shots blog Cancer kills more men than women — some forms more than others, finds a new study. In the new assessment of cancer data, men are more than twice as likely than women to die from lung, skin, kidney and liver cancers. Overall, not including sex-specific or breast cancers, men’s death rates are 1.9 times higher than women’s, according to the new...

RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM Women’s Health Policy Unit “Stellar Medicine: A Journey through the Universe of Women’s Health” Presented by Saralyn Mark, MD President, SolaMed Solutions, LLC Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine & Ob/Gyn Yale and Georgetown Schools of Medicine Affiliate Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy Senior Medical Advisor-NASA Monday, July 11, 2011 12:30...