Women's Health

On April 7, a U.S. District Court judge in Texas suspended FDA approval of the abortifacient mifepristone giving the government 7 days to appeal, and a second judge in Washington ruled not to restrict the drug in states allowing abortion.

Clinicians must consider adverse social factors and nonbiological variables, such as language barriers, health care access and discrimination, to better address CVD risk among women from underrepresented backgrounds, researchers reported.

Ozone exposure was associated with an increased risk for gestational hypertension during the first trimester of pregnancy, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Being younger at menopause onset and initiating hormone therapy after more than 5 years were both linked to increased tau vulnerability among women, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Neurology.

Racial and ethnic subtype-specific differences in pathologic complete response rates after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer may partially account for worse survival rates for Black women, according to study data.

Japanese women who habitually slept 6 hours or less per night were more likely to experience menopause at an older age than those who reported longer sleep duration, according to data published in Menopause.

Among cardiac arrest survivors, women were more likely to report anxiety, depressive symptoms and PTSD than men, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology’s Acute Cardiovascular Care congress.

Women with a history of infertility have an increased risk for CHD, but not stroke, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.