Gender Disparity

Women received significantly fewer academic research grants compared with men in hematology, although some agencies have shown progress in closing the gender disparity, according to results presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

At this year’s CHEST Meeting in Honolulu, doctors from all over the world presented research on various respiratory diseases and conditions and gave talks on important topics in pulmonology.

Male patients, Black patients and rural area residents with pulmonary embolism had poorer age-adjusted mortality rates than their respective opposing demographics, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Women living in low- and middle-income countries have a higher prevalence of obesity and other cardiometabolic disorders than men, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Although the percentage of female principal investigators in clinical trials has increased in recent years, gender underrepresentation continued to persist, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

HONOLULU — Women often have different presentations and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea compared with men and are offered treatment less often, according to a speaker at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

September is Women in Medicine Month.

A greater proportion of sexually and gender-diverse patients had alcohol use disorder diagnoses and care utilization compared with heterosexual and cisgender patients, a recent study found.

Despite women reporting more falls overall, men died from falls at higher rates, according to results published in MMWR.

The portrayal of women as physicians in U.S. movies did not appear to accurately reflect the pool of actual U.S. female medical professionals, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.