Dr. Betty MurrayHelping Women Navigate Menopause | Speaker, Author, and Advocate for Women's Health Over 40

Why Menopause Research Has Been Ignored

10 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment Dr. Betty Murray expresses outrage over the stark imbalance in medical research and funding between erectile dysfunction (ED) and menopause. She notes that ED, affecting only about 19% of men, receives substantial investment, while menopause—experienced by all women—has been largely ignored, with minimal research dollars and insufficient physician training. Murray criticizes current DEI initiatives that merely add the word “women” to studies without addressing the deeper historical neglect, pointing out that systematic study of women’s health only began around 1993, leaving a massive knowledge gap today.

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So let's talk about what makes me crazy today. So I talked to you a little bit about erectile dysfunction. Again, that really makes me angry that something that only affects 19% of men have, has received that kind of money. And that women all go through menopause and we haven't trained doctors to go through it. We haven't spent any money on research on it relative to the amount of impact it has. And right now our current administration is considering that a DEI just to put the word women in a study, because you can't just study women when we didn't do it until 1993 to begin with. And the gap we have now in understanding women's health is because we were never part of that paradigm.