{"id":750534,"date":"2026-08-26T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750534\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:36:13","slug":"womens-health-as-a-profit-driver-the-roi-of-understudied-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750534\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s health as a profit driver: The ROI of understudied disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The flip side of each new discovery about women\u2019s health is a history of research neglect. Now, as federal funding becomes increasingly precarious, some advocates, academics, and executives are appealing to another incentive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s called the profit motive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If disparities in women\u2019s health were fully addressed, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/~\/media\/mckinsey\/mckinsey%20health%20institute\/our%20insights\/closing%20the%20womens%20health%20gap%20a%201%20trillion%20dollar%20opportunity%20to%20improve%20lives%20and%20economies\/closing-the-womens-health-gap-report.pdf?shouldIndex=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2024 World Economic Forum report<\/a> estimated, by 2040 that could boost global economic productivity annually by $1 trillion. 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