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Scientific study of health conditions and biology specific to women, a historically underfunded field now gaining dedicated funding and research attention.
Monash University's Susan Davis found menopause was not linked to absence or lost productivity in a study of more than 8,000 midlife women. The result undercuts the work case for the menopause plans large UK employers must publish from April 2027.
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The Edmonton firm's first summit measured the category it wants to fund in company counts and research-funding shares, and the panel's proposed remedy was to double the share of Canadian general partners who are women.
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Menarche and pregnancy each leave a permanent step down in cortical gray matter. At menopause an Amsterdam-led team found no change at all, and the design compared one scan before the transition with one after.
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A two-scan study of 1,095 female brains in Nature Communications finds the ordinary adult decline in cortical gray matter flattening through late perimenopause and resuming afterward. Its first author says the implications are hard to state.
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A first-of-its-kind study of four fliers reports the vaginal community moving while the oral one mostly held still, which is enough to justify a bigger orbital experiment and not enough to tell a flight surgeon what to sample.
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A UK cohort of more than 180,000 women links HRT to 10 percent lower dementia risk, and 26 percent after surgical menopause. Neither of this week's papers is a trial, and they disagree on mechanism.
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