Apple Hires Obstetrician for Health Team to Bolster Women's Health Efforts

"When you have an education". What do you know about my education and qualifications ?

That's right. Nothing. So no need to be insulting.

 

Tracking the progression of a pregnancy, or monthly cycles and fertility, seems doable with an app.

But I don’t think the iPhone or Apple Watch will be able to test for or somehow detect cancer, in women or men. I think you might be expecting a little too much from Apple in this regard.

 

Yes, direct analysis seems unlikely. However, there could be helpful options to track, say, urination habits in men, which can be related to poor prostate health.

I was pushing back at the over generalisation.

 

I referred to something medical. Do you, though? My guess is not because you’d clearly understand what I mean by women’s health. It’s not being insulting, but rather factual and realistic about what you understand medically. If you want to talk women's health, I’m sure we could talk about how women have to deal with such a things like frequent urinary infections, yeast infections, endometriosis, heavy uterine shedding or even poly cystic ovary syndrome. Those are the kind of general things when referrencing women’s health, things which are specific to a woman that a man does not have to deal with or have anything similar in severity or commonality to women.

 

Careful, using the term “manly” may trigger a PRSI discussion. (Just ask Gillette).

 

Haha when you are a woman then you can lecture other men. Age has nothing to do with knowledge.

He is right there is a reason women have gynaecology, urogynecology, and obstetricians.

 

How come people automatically put this in a simplistic women versus men narrative? Everyone's health benefits everyone!

 

Because some people have a zero-sum mindset. To them if women gain from something, that must mean that men lose from it.

 

It is good that they are investing in this area. I, for one, have not said otherwise. However, it would be good to see more investment in men's health issues too.

 

Apple is going to improve on the dedicated clinical researchers and clinicians, i.e., digital exam, ultrasound, MRI, CT scans or PET scans with a magical detector in an iPhone? If they can do this, I will join the millions recommending them for Nobel Prize.

PSA is not even prostate specific, the false negatives/positives are fighting and to date, there is no magical chemical that can be detected in the blood to screen for this cancer. Yet.

A gloved finger in the annual or bi-annual checkup is the cheapest method - and still not accurate until the tumor is a considerable size.

They still have to get in there - with ultrasound or anything else new. The alternate access point is more painful even to think about. If the choice is given, the finger is the "more" welcome method.

 

plus in the us women are often under treated or not even believed often. just look at heart attacks and how man and women are not treated equally.

 

Yeah, all those majority female cancer researchers simply don't care enough about men.

 

That is precisely how the American conservative mind works these days, unfortunately.

 

There is no clinical prognostic or diagnostic blood or urine test that can be done to screen for prostate cancer - full stop. All over the world. They are researching - so far futile.

It is a cancer in an apparently easy access, but in reality a poor access area for diagnosing - which accounts for its late diagnosis most of the time. Treatment protocols have improved - not enough to save function most of the time. Unlike breast/ovarian cancer, there is no easy preventive surgery (Angelina Jolie) without the depressing complications.

Actually, prostate (urology) specialists are the one field that do require specializing to a high degree.

 

I take it as you do not enjoy the prostate checks then
Even worst, my doctor has a really large hands. I feel very violated, like somebody is sticking a periscope up my ar*e

I wish Apple would take professionals from places which are not famous for denying patience care for their own profit.
It doesn’t really give Apple that great of an image.

Of course I do not know that doctor but I hope she really cares for the well being of patients.

 

Not a trustworthy group.

Does not matter how noble the physician is - the rules bind them from ethical practice.