Research reviewed as part of the Women's Health Action Plan included only a handful of studies on pelvic organ prolapse, vaginosis, early pregnancy loss, post-partum mental health in the OECD, and none at all in Ireland. Photograph: Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times
Research into women’s reproductive health has come a long way, at least since 1666. A Royal Society research report I stumbled on during the Covid pandemic records the examination of the remains of a five-month-old foetus with an unusual physical presentation. The author described it as “in form of an Ape, having all over its shoulders, almost to its middle, a mass of flesh, that came from the hinder part of its head, and hung down in the form of a little Cloak”.
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