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Women’s brains may respond to alcohol earlier than men’s, which could help explain why women are more vulnerable to alcohol-related anxiety and depression, according to new research. The findings could inform more personalised treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD), especially for women and people in the earlier stages of harmful alcohol use. Researchers at Scripps [...]

A new two-day summit in Hong Kong aims to highlight why supporting women’s health is not just a moral obligation but an economic imperative. Around the world, women continue to face barriers to healthcare—whether through regressive policies, underfunding or lack of access. At the same time, a growing number of women-led start-ups and companies are [...]

Women using weight loss injections have been advised to use reliable contraception after the UK’s medicines regulator received 40 reports of pregnancies—some of them unexpected, despite birth control. As reported by Sky News, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a public safety alert about GLP-1 receptor agonists—including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Saxenda, [...]

Women who regularly drank caffeinated coffee in midlife were more likely to age in good physical and mental health, according to a major study that tracked nearly 50,000 participants over three decades. The research analysed data from 47,513 women in the long-running Nurses’ Health Study, with dietary and health data collected since 1984. Healthy ageing [...]

Children born to mothers with severe obesity are up to 53 per cent more likely to be hospitalised with infections during childhood, a large UK study has found. Researchers followed children in Bradford from birth until they reached age 15, withdrew from the study, or died, whichever came first by October 2022. They discovered significantly [...]

A new study has found that eating about two servings of mangos daily for two weeks significantly reduced several short-term blood pressure measures as well as fasting total and LDL cholesterol in healthy postmenopausal women. Conducted by researchers at University of California, Davis, the study showed measurable improvements in key heart health markers. Two hours [...]

A self-collection device for cervical cancer screening has shown equivalent effectiveness to traditional clinic-based testing, according to new research that could help address screening gaps affecting women's health outcomes. The SELF-CERV trial, which validated the Teal Wand device across 16 medical sites in the United States, found that self-collected samples detected precancer 96 per cent [...]

By Gail MacLeitch, psychotherapist and VP of AI communications provider QuickBlox, and Leslie Taylor, co-founder of Half the Sky, the team behind BestYet—a digital platform which helps women take control of their menopausal journey. Despite spending more than a third of their lives in menopause, most women face this transition with little support, personally or professionally. Instead, women tend [...]

A new study has revealed a concerning decline in self-reported mental health among mothers in the United States between 2016 and 2023, as well as modest but measurable declines in self-reported physical health during the same period. The large-scale analysis examined data from 198,417 mothers who participated in the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), [...]

A groundbreaking, cross-industry initiative designed to improve adherence to clinical guidelines in the treatment of early and metastatic breast cancer has been launched by health data company Novellia. Project EVEREST unites leading researchers, clinicians, and biopharmaceutical companies - including Daiichi Sankyo, Genentech, and AstraZeneca - to identify and address the barriers preventing consistent, evidence-based cancer care across healthcare settings. [...]