In this issue:

We can all agree that health shouldn’t be compromised by misinformation. Yet social
airwaves are filled with health info that is often mistaken, misinterpreted, or wrong.

Good or bad, social media has become society’s moment-by-moment news outlet, and yet no social channel is free of misinformation about women’s health. The real result is an information struggle between science-backed fact and socialized fiction.

This struggle is playing out now as too many North American communities are experiencing an outbreak of measles — a disease declared eradicated in Canada in 1998 and gone from the United States in 2000. Now measles is back due to socially spurred vaccine fears and misinformation.

Similarly, when it comes to women’s health and specifically menopause, misinformation has clouded the media focus, social and traditional, for decades. For women everywhere, that has meant a common burden of uncertainty, disrespect, and even full disdain for the symptoms of menopause and the person experiencing them.