'Chưa được khai phá' là từ không đúng đâu

theo các nhà nghiên cứu, âm đạo phụ nữ có nhiều tiềm năng y tế chưa được khai phá...

In the realm of medicine, conversations around vaginas (âm đạo) have been remarkably narrow. Usually, the focus is only given either following a vaginal delivery of a child, as a ‘passing glance’ as health care professionals access the cervix (cổ tử cung) for screening, or when the body of the uterus (tử cung) is examined for other medical procedures.

And when vaginal health is reviewed, it’s usually focused on infections such as sexually transmitted diseases (bệnh lây qua đường tình dục) and cancerous lesions.

But the vagina is a dynamic (năng động) organ. For example, the many biological changes that occur throughout the menstrual cycle.

It also has its own microenvironment (vi môi trường), a carefully balanced microbiome containing billions of bacteria (vi khuẩn). And we are only just beginning to understand the role this plays in vaginal, reproductive and public health.

The vagina’s potential as a route for diagnostics (chẩn đoán) and therapeutics (điều trị học) has largely been ignored. But now, scientists, doctors, and pharma companies have started to look at the organ in a new way.

As it can be easily self-accessed (tự tiếp cận), the vagina allows for intervention anytime, anywhere. There is no need for hospital visits or invasive procedures. This gives women the benefit of near complete independence (độc lập) and continuous monitoring (theo dõi) or treatment.