It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

by Karen Tang

In 2022, the NIH allocated $37 million for research on smallpox, a disease that was completely eradicated from the United States in 1949. Compare this with the $27 million budgeted for endometriosis, which affects at least 10 percent of women, or the $15 million for fibroids, which affect 70 percent of white women and 80 percent of Black women.