Articles

Evaluating ChatGPT’s Multilingual Performance in Clinical Nutrition Advice Using Synthetic Medical Text: Insights from Central Asia

Elsevier,

The Journal of Nutrition, 2025, Volume 155, Issue 3

This study evaluated ChatGPT-4's ability to generate personalized, evidence-based nutrition recommendations in English, Russian, and Kazakh for Central Asian populations, finding moderate performance in English and Russian but very limited effectiveness in Kazakh due to language limitations. The results underscore the need for customized AI models tailored to underrepresented languages and local cultures to ensure equitable and relevant health solutions for diverse communities.

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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Reducing inequalities, Asia

Psycho-physical demands of Traditional Indigenous Games played by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

Elsevier,

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Volume 28, Issue 7, July 2025, Pages 577-580

This pilot study examined the psycho-physical demands experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women during several Traditional Indigenous Games and recommends culturally relevant interventions to improve physical activity levels and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Oceania

Women in surgical innovation: A guide to breaking down barriers and developing solutions from bench to bedside (Part I)

Elsevier,

American Journal of Surgery, Volume 241, March 2025

"Studies show that solutions developed by men are often best suited for men; while those developed by female inventors are more inclusively designed…..we will draw from interviews with women surgeon innovators, map their journeys as pioneers in surgical innovation, navigate through the obstacles they encountered, and the recount invaluable lessons they learned along the way."
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SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

The parenthood journey in radiology: Challenges and opportunities

Elsevier,

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 March 2025

The journey to parenthood is often delayed or prolonged for physicians, which disproportionately negatively impact women physicians. A better understanding of the resources and realities to achieve parenthood allows for more timely family planning while pursuing career advancements in radiology, particularly for medical students and our radiology trainees and early-career colleagues.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

The impact of infertility on the mental health of women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment

Elsevier,

Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025

The article explores the impact of infertility on the mental health of women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.The article highlights the need for tailored psychological support and interventions.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing; Human rights, Europe

Artificial intelligence-enhanced electrocardiography for the identification of a sex-related cardiovascular risk continuum: a retrospective cohort study

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.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Technology, Global

Impact of a national HPV vaccination programme for preadolescent girls on cytology screening performance and CIN2+ incidence: five-year population-based cervical screening results from Slovenia

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.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, Europe

Are we leaving women with disabilities in the Global South behind? How the reinforcement of different forms of violence leads to unsustainable development

Elsevier,

Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 109, 1 March 2025

This study explores the pervasive and multifaceted violence faced by women with disabilities in Nepal, focusing on the ways in which these experiences are shaped by intersecting social hierarchies, including those based on gender, caste, and socioeconomic status. By calling for more targeted and inclusive strategies that prioritise the perspectives and needs of disabled women, this researh argues that the global commitment to “leave no one behind” will be upheld.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Asia

ArticlesSafety and drug quantification of the dapivirine vaginal ring and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis in breastfeeding mother–infant pairs (MTN-043): a phase 3B, open-label, randomised trial

Elsevier

The dapivirine vaginal ring is a discreet prevention choice for women at substantial risk of HIV infection as part of combination prevention approaches. This study covers a gap on research including on breastfeeding women. Those living in areas of substantial HIV transmission need options to initiate an HIV prevention method before or during pregnancy and continue their chosen method through breastfeeding and beyond.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, Africa

Food insecurity, intimate partner violence, and barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among women in Lorentzville, South Africa

Elsevier,

Social Science and Medicine, Volume 369, March 2025

Food insecurity increases women's vulnerability to intimate partner violence in transactional sex relationships.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 5: Gender equality
Africa

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