(HealthDay)—Women are more likely to experience anxiety and depression, and women and older children are more likely to receive mental health treatment, according to new statistics from four data briefs published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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Women orthopaedic surgeons report high rates of sexual harassment
More than two-thirds of women orthopedic surgeons report experiencing sexual harassment during their residency training, according to a survey study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (CORR), a publication of The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons. Sexual harassment of…
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Young women are the most vulnerable to postpartum mental illness, study finds
A study, led by researchers at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Manchester and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), has found that young women are most vulnerable to postpartum mental illness. The term “postpartum”…
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Breast screening women in their forties saves lives
Breast screening women aged 40-49 reduces breast cancer mortality, with minimal increased overdiagnosis, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London that looked at data from 160,000 women. The UK, along with many other countries, has a…
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Genetic variant may explain why some women don’t need pain relief during childbirth
Women who do not need pain relief during childbirth may be carriers of a key genetic variant that acts a natural epidural, say scientists at the University of Cambridge. In a study published today in the journal Cell Reports, the…
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Study: The immune effects of seclidemstat in aggressive ovarian cancer striking young women
A drug known as SP-2577 could help enable the body’s own immune system to attack ovarian cancer, according to a study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope. Published today in the scientific…
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Meet the women tackling lockdown anxiety with magic mushrooms and microdosing
‘It’s been a total godsend to me during this time, I actually don’t think I could have coped without it,’ says Marina*. Lockdown has seen many of us turn to crutches – alcohol, cigarettes or junk food – but for…
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Women more likely than men to die waiting for a liver transplant, study finds
A large cohort study has revealed that women are 8.6 percent more likely than men to die while waiting for a liver transplant and 14.4 percent less likely than men to receive a deceased donor liver transplant. It is a…
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Only 1 in 3 COVID-19 research authors are women and even fewer are senior authors
Women make up only a third of all authors who have published research on COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in January this year, and even fewer of them are senior authors on these papers, suggests an analysis in…
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BAME women account for over half of pregnant women in UK hospitals with COVID-19
More than half of pregnant women recently admitted to a UK hospital with covid-19 infection were from black or other ethnic minority groups, finds a national surveillance study published by The BMJ today. Most women had good outcomes, and transmission…
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