A modified version of niclosamide, a decades-old tapeworm drug, shrank endometriosis lesions and eased pain sensitivity in mice, researchers at Washington State University report. Any treatment is at least five years from patients, but existing guidance already sets...
Stillbirths have fallen by more than a third since 2000, but progress has slowed since 2015. The Gates Foundation and Wellcome Leap will each put US$50m over three years into Uzima, a programme to halve stillbirth rates in selected countries within ten years. UN...
New evidence on autism, autoimmune disease and heart attacks shows women diagnosed later than men, for overlapping reasons. Cardiologists, researchers and England’s health service have begun to change the tools and rules behind those delays. In Sweden, autism...
Diagnosis of autism in girls is catching up with boys in Scotland and Sweden. In a large US health system, though, girls and women were still diagnosed an average of 3.4 years later than boys and men. Scotland’s autism diagnosis gap between boys and girls is...
Cardiologists have rewritten the international definition of a heart attack, calling for separate blood test limits for women and men. The change is meant to cut the number of heart attacks in women that go unrecognised, and women can act on their own symptoms now. In...
