(MIS)Treated
Episodes
How Canada stops forced sterilization of Indigenous women
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about forced and coerced sterilization?of?Indigenous women and girls in?Canada. Please listen with care. In 2025, Senator Yvonne Boyer...
How do hormonal changes impact women's brain health?
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Only 3% of studies in neuroscience examine a female-only population, even though women make up 50% of the population. When it comes to neuroscience, r...
How to combat the Black maternal health crisis
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the U.S., Black women are more than three times as likely to die during childbirth as white women. In the U.K., Black women are more than twice as ...
Can Canada still eliminate cervical cancer by 2040?
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors are calling for action. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, and rates in Canada had been dropping for years. Canada had ev...
An Open Conversation On Pregnancy Loss
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pregnancy loss affects millions each year – so why do so many women have to suffer in silence after a miscarriage or stillbirth? According to a 2021...
The Pink Pill: De-stigmatizing women's libido
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You may know Viagra as the "blue pill" but what about Addyi, the "pink pill"? Addyi was first approved in the U.S. in 2015 to treat hypoactive sexual ...
What's it like to try and get diagnosed with endometriosis?
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Because the male body has been the default in medicine, conditions that primarily impact women, like PCOS and endometriosis, are under researched, mis...
Why is it so hard to get care for the menopause transition?
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the last few years, menopause has become a big business and the global market for it is worth billions of dollars. Yet the people who need care dur...
'A Dream Realized': A conversation with Canada's menopause pioneer
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Until recently, menopause was a whisper between friends and trusted ones. And if you were going through it, there was an unspoken secrecy about saying...
Why researching sex and gender differences matters
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Women are diagnosed on average 2 to 4 years later than men in over 1300 different disorders. These include conditions like depression and anxiety, and...
Why are gynaecology wait times so long in Canada?
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Ontario, family doctors are the gateway to the healthcare system, including providing a referral for a specialist. If you are one of the nearly 2 m...
How does gender bias harm women's mental health?
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Until the early 1900s if a woman had symptoms like cramps, depression, or a headache, a doctor would probably diagnose her with hysteria, which was re...
Why did science ignore girls and women with ADHD?
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Consider that while the symptoms of ADHD were first identified back in 1798, it wasn’t until the 1990s that science began to study how ADHD pres...
What is the haunting legacy of gynaecology?
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Much of gynaecology was built on surgical experiments conducted on enslaved African women. These procedures were done by Doctor James Marion Sims, who...
(MIS)Treated returns January 20th
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join Nam Kiwanuka January 20th on (MIS)Treated to hear real life stories and expert interviews on how the mistreatment and misdiagnosis of women affec...
Why are 70% of Alzheimer's patients women?
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it genetics or age that causes more women to have Alzheimer's? It's more complicated than that. Studies show that of every three patients with Alzh...
Why EDS is more than "just loose joints"
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2023, Sydney Gesualdi was rear-ended at a red light. She was told by her doctors that she had whiplash and tissue damage, but instead of getti...
Is FemTech the answer to women's health?
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Femtech focuses on technological innovation within the women's health space. Innovations can include everything from a new version of the speculum to ...
The Report: Women's health and its connection to the economy
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that women in Canada spend 24% more time in ill health compared to men? That's just one of the findings from The McKinsey Health Institut...
What's it like to live with endometriosis?
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the World Health Organization, it can take 4 to 12 years to be diagnosed with endometriosis. In Canada, it's 5 years, and in the U.K., 9 ...
Why weren't women included in clinical trials?
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Women were excluded from clinical trials until 1993 in the United States and until 1997 in Canada. Nam Kiwanuka speaks to Dr. Michelle Cohen, a family...
The Report: Black women and girl's health in Canada
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nam Kiwanuka speaks with Kearie Daniel, the executive director and founder of The Black Women's Institute for Health about a first-of-its-kind survey ...
How patient stories are changing PCOS research
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kendall Soucie, an associate professor at the University of Windsor, has spoken with many people suffering with polycystic ovarian syndrome. She expla...
Dispelling the myths of a 'lazy girl's diagnosis'
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's a good chance you've heard of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). By some estimates, nearly 1.4 million Canadians have it, but did you know it's...
"I want to live as if I'm alive"
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By 2050, global cancer rates are set to increase by 75 per cent, but the human impact is already being felt. Nam Kiwanuka speaks with Farrah Khan who ...
Tylenol and women's pain in pregnancy
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In September, Donald Trump sparked a public health crisis when he claimed there was a link between the prenatal use of Tylenol and autism. The health ...
Endometriosis "acts almost like a cancer"
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine waiting for years, sometimes decades, to receive a diagnosis for an illness that's made you change every aspect of your life. If you're living...
Are fibroids FINALLY having a moment?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fibroids will impact up to 80% of women by age 50 so why don't we know what causes them? As celebrities like Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o and tennis su...
Introducing '(MIS)Treated'
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(MIS)Treated explores how medicine has – and still is – failing women and speaks to the people looking to make a difference. Join host Nam...