Elsevier,
Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 22, 1 March 2025
This article examines the exposures and health impacts experienced by female sugarcane workers in Guatemala, focusing on heat stress, particulate matter exposure, and kidney function. The key findings indicate that these women face elevated levels of heat and particulate matter at work, leading to dehydration and reduced kidney function. The study highlights the need for gender-responsive interventions to address the unique health risks faced by women in agricultural settings.
Elsevier,
The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 7, March 2025
The first RCT of AI-supported mammography screening; shows the intervention results in increased cancer detection rates than standard double reading and reduces reading workload by >40%. Also important as breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women globally.
Elsevier,
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
Academic Medical Centers play a key role in providing comprehensive abortion services, from primary care to complex specialty care, and in training future clinicians in abortion provision. The weekly number of abortions at University of Washington remained stable after Dobbs.
Elsevier,
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
The authors suggest that being denied a desired contraceptive method (downward coercion) may have a more profound negative impact on patients' self-efficacy, self-esteem, and reproductive autonomy. Patient autonomy needs to be safeguarded
Elsevier,
The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 7, March 2025
The AI-ECG model treats sex as a continuum, rather than a dichotomy (the current paradigm). This (and a derived biomarker) allows them to show that in those at low cardiovascular (CV) risk, female individuals (but not male individuals) with a higher biomarker score are at increased risk of CV death. The method can help mitigate exisiting inequities in CV healthcare.
Elsevier,
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 50, March 2025
This study has shown that even with imperfect coverage of HPV vaccination targeting preadolescent girls, substantially lower incidence of CIN2+ is already observed. Thus, vaccinating population through organized and publicly funded programme should be encouraged and efforts to increase vaccination coverage should be given.
Elsevier,
Obesity Pillars, Volume 13, March 2025
This retrospective cohort study linked primary care prenatal data and intrapartum data from women with singleton pregnancies. With the linked data, the researchers explored the association between the timing of Gestational diabetes screening and macrosomia, Large-for-gestational age, shoulder dystocia and caesarean section.
