Overlooked: Women's Health Can't Wait

Епизоде

• From period pain to the pain scale: why we struggle with the language of pain, with Kate Downey 24.06.2026 37мин

  This episode is a special collaboration with Cramped, hosted by the dynamic Kate Helen Downey.
• The cost of endometriosis, with Sanju Pal 02.06.2026 25мин

  Sanju Pal talks about the overlooked aspects of her health story, what it really means to be part of a landmark case, and what she’s learned from years of self-advocacy.
• Understanding and treating PMDD, with Shalene Gupta 12.05.2026 29мин

  Shalene Gupta talks about her experience with PMDD.
• What is Female Athlete Triad? with rock climber Jasna Hodžić 29.04.2026 22мин

  What is Female Athlete Triad, with Jasna Hodžić
• PCOS, the brain, and what we're missing - with Elle Murata 14.04.2026 24мин

  Elle Murata is a neuroscientist with PCOS. When she was diagnosed - and dismissed in the same appointment - she designed a study and made herself the subject. This episode is about how PCOS is really a systemic disorder, how it impacts the brain, and what medicine still doesn’t know.
• Your health story - voices from the First Person Health workshop 31.03.2026 14мин

  This episode comes from our listeners, and features their stories about diagnosis and recovery, health and illness - documenting what they have lived through, how it has changed their bodies, and what this health journey has meant to them.
• The woman who helped make tampons safer, with Nancy King Reame 18.03.2026 32мин

  Nancy King Reame, Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Nursing, spent decades researching tampon safety, starting from the early eighties.
• Cesarean births: the surgery that changes everything, with Helena Grant and Rachel Somerstein 03.03.2026 37мин

  Cesarean births are one of the most common operations in the world, and yet, we know surprisingly little about the impact and legacy of this surgery in our bodies.
• Your health story, in your own words: voices from the First Person Health workshop 17.02.2026 13мин

  This episode comes from our listeners, and features their stories about diagnosis and recovery.
• Knowing, and facing your cancer risk, with Michelle Zimmerman 03.02.2026 23мин

  A previvor is a person who doesn't have cancer but carries a genetic risk for developing it.
• What a visit to the ER taught me about pain in women 15.01.2026 5мин

  In the last week of 2025, host Golda Arthur went to the emergency room with a sudden, intense headache. The scan showed nothing. But sitting in an uncomfortable chair with an IV in her arm, she realized something.
• One woman's journey to understand adenomyosis, with Cait Reeves 02.12.2025 11мин

  What is adenomyosis? Cait Reeves tells us her story: years of pain, a struggle to get a specific diagnosis, and the work she has put into getting her symptoms under control.
• Migraine and hormones 101, with Dr Rashmi Halker Singh 11.11.2025 23мин

  This is a listener-requested episode about the connection between migraine and hormones - and one hormone in particular.
• New ways to predict preeclampsia and save lives, with Dr Neel Shah 04.11.2025 22мин

  Preeclampsia is one of the most dangerous conditions in pregnancy, and we’ve struggled to predict it.
• Why do more women than men get Alzheimers? With Dr Gillian Einstein 28.10.2025 26мин

  Two-thirds of people with Alzheimer's are women, meet the researcher who's trying to find out why.
• The rivalry that built birth control in America - women's health history with Stephanie Gorton 21.10.2025 25мин

  In 1914, the fight for birth control wasn't led by one woman - it was shaped by a fierce rivalry between two.
• What should men's role in women's health be? with Sanj Singh 14.10.2025 19мин

  What should men's role in women's health be? Golda hits the streets of Manhattan for an unscientific sampling, then talks with Sanj Singh, CEO of Temple Therapeutics, about his mission to turn uncomfortable silence into curiosity, then advocacy from his fellow men.
• No two experiences of menopause are the same - listener stories 07.10.2025 16мин

  There is a huge diversity of experience in menopause, and we don't talk about that enough.
• A new way of looking at endometriosis, with Rowan Gardner 30.09.2025 22мин

  With endometriosis, the stakes are high, and the challenges are enormous - but so is the opportunity.
• A 'Uterus in a Dish': How menstrual blood could revolutionize women's health research, with Morgan Stanton 23.09.2025 27мин

  Morgan Stanton, from Opal Therapeutics, explains why menstrual blood contains unique cells that could unlock mysteries about women's health.