Blind to women’s sexual health

A recent article published in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Newsweek questioned the existence of “female dysfunction,” as if to say, who cares about women’s sexual health? If you can’t “see” it, apparently it doesn’t exist. This is one-sided, inaccurate and disparaging of women.
Why is it that when men are impotent it is taken seriously, but when women suffer from sexual dysfunction it is ridiculed and attributed to “Big Pharma’s” attempt to conjure a condition so they can make and sell a drug?  If Pharma is so bad, why do we depend upon them to research and manufacture drugs to prevent and treat cancer?
Why do we hope that one of the companies will be successful in developing a drug to prevent, delay or treat Alzheimer’s disease? Do you give your child an antibiotic when they have strep or do you ignore it? If there is a pandemic whom do we turn to?
Full disclosure, my non-profit organization, the Society of Women’s Health Research (SWHR), credited with changing the face of medicine and the definition of women’s health, receives support from Pharma and our success could not have been possible without it.
Not too long ago, illnesses such as restless leg syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and PMDD were derided as made-up conditions by “Big Pharma” – until they weren’t. So if a condition is recently recognized and diagnosed, but hasn’t been previously recognized by the medical establishment or the media who covers them, ...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Women's Health Sexual dysfunction Source Type: blogs