Science, despite its reputation as cutting edge, sometimes seems pretty behind. Researchers the world over still use the gender binary in almost every study despite the fact that a lot of scientists question the validity of the whole gender category system. Now, a new study confirms what people with uteruses have known since the beginning of time: PMS is a public health issue.
The study, which was published Tuesday in the Archives of Women’s Health, surveyed 238,000 people across 140 countries who use the Flo app to track their menstrual cycles and symptoms in order to determine just how prevalent and debilitating PMS symptoms are. Turns out that PMS is negatively affecting the lives of so many people across the world that the researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University, who conducted the study, say it should be considered a public health issue.
