Jennifer Horgan: It's hard to celebrate the recent 'discovery' in women's health, it's been ignored for so long

The neglect of women’s health, the health of every second person, is baked into medical science, writes Jennifer Horgan

A friend was once told by her young male GP that he's not 'great on women’s health'. She asked why he didn’t hang a ‘men’s clinic’ sign on his door. He looked confused as she explained that women make up half the human population, and so, women’s health is just health. File photo

My Period: find your flow and feel proud of your period. The title of a book I bought for a friend’s daughter this week. She bought it for mine a few years ago. I lost it of course, so I’ve purchased a return copy.

It’s a big deal — a girl getting her period. Providing them with basic information is a given. It amazes me how difficult such a given can seem, however, and how often female health is framed as a specialism.