womenshealth
From Clue and Flo to Premom and Stardust, there are many popular applications women use to monitor their health by tracking information such as their periods, ovulation cycles, and sexual activity. But are female health apps protecting this sensitive data? A team of researchers in the UK found “problematic practices, including inconsistencies” regarding data privacy in several female health apps. They presented the research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii in the US this month. The researchers analysed 20 popular female health apps available on the US...
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Menstrual periods may be starting earlier in younger generations, according to new research. The study was published on Wednesday in the scientific journal JAMA Network Open and based on data from the Apple Women’s Health Study, which involved 71,341 women. Researchers in the US found that the average age at which girls begin menstruating has decreased from 12.5 years for those born between 1950 and 1969 to 11.9 years for those born between 2000 and 2005. There has also been an increase in the time it takes for menstrual cycles to become regular after menarche (the first menstrual cycle), with...
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Austria was the top country in Europe for women’s health, ranking third on a global index, according to a new report. The country initiated an action plan with 40 measures specifically for women’s health in 2017. Germany, Denmark, Poland, and the Czech Republic were the other EU countries among the top 10 in the world on women’s health. This is the third year that the company Hologic published the Women’s Health Index, a survey conducted with more than 147,000 participants from 143 countries and territories. The data was gathered in 2022 and analysed in 2023. The index takes into consideration...
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When it comes to pain, stereotypes relating to sex and gender tend to come into play. But, is a male's threshold really higher than a female's? Are women really more sensitive than men? These are some of the questions the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) hopes to answer by the end of 2024 with new research. Its goal is to tackle, understand, and create awareness of the disparities between sex and gender in relation to pain, which it defines as an "unpleasant sensory and emotional experience". According to the World Health Organistion (WHO), sex refers to "the different bi...
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Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona. Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training — is likely to remain protected, like California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Arizona has enacted a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. “I would really like to have all the training possible,” she said, “so of course that would have still been a limitati...
Kaiser Health News
Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona. Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training — is likely to remain protected, like California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Arizona has enacted a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. “I would really like to have all the training possible,” she said, “so of course that would have still been a limitati...
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Personalised screening early in pregnancy could help doctors better predict who might be at risk for pre-eclampsia, according to a new study. The condition is a type of high blood pressure that can be dangerous in pregnancy and is a leading cause of maternal death worldwide. According to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), pre-eclampsia affects two to five of every 100 pregnancies. A new study of more than 7,000 women with first-time pregnancies suggests that a screening algorithm that includes maternal history, blood marker tests, and ultrasounds could help to identify a woman’s risk for ...
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Entrepreneur, author, and creator of the term "femtech," Ida Tin is the chairwoman and co-founder of Clue, the pioneering period-tracking app. Despite growing up in an open-minded environment, Tin soon recognised the health gap affecting women across various facets of their lives. The absence of conversations surrounding menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy, and the poor investments in family planning schemes, motivated Tin to dedicate her life to building gender equality through technology. How technology is saving lives in the operating rooms | Europe's Health Tech PioneersWhat if health t...
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Patients treated by female doctors have a lower mortality rate when compared to patients treated by their male counterparts, a new study suggests. Researchers found this was especially true for female patients and observed a similar pattern for hospital readmission rates. The team published their findings in the scientific journal Annals of Internal Medicine. “What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful impact on patients' health outcomes,” Dr Yusuke Tsugawa, an associate professor-in-residence at the Univ...
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Arizona's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that officials can enforce a 160-year-old law banning abortions. The US state joins 14 others that have banned abortion since the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, a court case that guaranteed access to abortion in the US. Arizona's 1864 law bans abortions except if it is "necessary to save" a woman's life, providing no exceptions for rape or incest. The law predates Arizona's statehood. The state's Supreme Court said enforcement won't begin for at least two weeks, but it could be up to two months. The number of abortions in the state is expected to drop ...
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