The latest women’s health news covering topics around the mental and physical wellbeing of women from across the globe and a look at the safety and wellbeing of women at work, in public, and at home.
With areas of expertise in cannabis use and brain disorders, Justine Renard from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction spoke to Lorna Rothery about the prevalence and potential impacts of cannabis use during pregnancy.
Fusobacterium, implicated in diseases like gingivitis, ulcerative colitis, and colon cancer, has now been discovered to play a role in the formation of endometriosis.
Abortion legislation is being criticised after woman has been sentenced to prison for an induced abortion after taking more than the legal limit of pills.
Researchers were able to better identify the causes of endometriosis using different datasets of women with and without the condition, finding genetics play a large role.
In July 2022 the Women and Equalities Committee published a report focusing on menopause in the workplace, including recommendations to make menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act of 2010.
The proposal to make menopause leave a ‘protected characteristic’ under the Equality Act has been blocked by ministers in an effort to prevent discrimination towards men.
Researchers have identified circulating microparticle proteins with the ability to predict placenta accrete spectrum cases before their delivery, allowing improved mortality and morbidity for mothers.
Dr Erika Kennington, Head of Research and Innovation at Asthma + Lung UK, says that millions of women are drawing the short straw with too little research exploring the effect of female sex hormones on asthma.
Here, Dr Fiona MacRae, Women’s Health & Hormone Specialist at The Marion Gluck Clinic, provides an expert view on pregnancy, breastfeeding and hormones.
