Reading Time: 4 minutes If people want to pay for an abortion, and live with the consequences, that’s their choice
Tag: Women’s Health
Wear Red Day warns women about risks of heart attack and stroke
Reading Time: 4 minutes To be held on Feb. 13, its goal is to arm women with knowledge and questions to ask their doctors
New way identified to prevent breast cancer cells from evading therapy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Inhibiting the process that causes resistance in these cells improves the efficacy of immunotherapy, could mean better outcomes
How student athletes stay mentally healthy
Reading Time: 3 minutes So that they can switch it into a maintenance mode when the games start to count
Women less likely to die from COVID-19 than men
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hormones, chromosomes contribute to stronger immune response and better outcomes for female COVID-19 patients
Women face higher risk of death or heart failure following a heart attack: study
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gap is closing, but U of A researchers find women are still given fewer tests and medications, and are less likely to see a specialist
Worse birth outcomes, higher pregnancy risk in poorest rural regions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta researchers identify gradients of risk for preterm births, small and large size at birth, smoking and drug use by mothers
Women’s and gender studies ideal training for med school: students
Reading Time: 4 minutes Three U of A medical students may have different backgrounds and interests, but they share a passion for reducing inequities in health
Women are twice as likely as men to experience mood disorders
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not only are women more likely to have a mood disorder, but women experience different symptoms than men
The jarring collision of transgender sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes How do we level the playing field when male-to-female athletes want to compete against biological females?