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There are so many innovations happening in women’s health right now, including wearable devices and products to track and manage periods, perimenopause and more. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images, Sequel, Teal Health)A tampon that stops leaks. A cervical cancer screening test you can take at home. An app that tracks perimenopause symptoms to help you sort through the confusion and manage them better. These are just a few of the key innovations that are reshaping women’s health, making it a priority rather than an afterthought. To quote Lizzo: “It’s about damn time.”It’s well known that women’s health has…
What if a simple test could save thousands of lives every year, and yet millions don’t take it?That’s the case with screenings for cervical cancer, one of the most preventable types of cancer there is. Women have some powerful tools at their disposal to beat it, thanks to HPV tests, which screen for high-risk strains of the human papillomavirus (the virus that causes cervical cancer), and Pap smears, which detect abnormal cell changes before they turn cancerous. There’s even a highly effective shot — the HPV vaccine — that prevents cervical cancer, along with five other types of cancer.The problem?…
Why is it suddenly harder to find the right word or remember the name of the restaurant you used to go to? When did sleeping through the night become such a rarity? And what’s up with that shoulder pain that came out of nowhere? Welcome to perimenopause — the transition period that kicks off years before you officially reach menopause. While hot flashes and night sweats steal most of the spotlight, there are many subtler and seemingly random symptoms that can crop up (itchy ears, anyone?). It can leave women feeling blindsided and lost, like they’re navigating an ever-shifting landscape…
Imagine spending years with painful cramps, heavy bleeding, fatigue and fertility struggles, all while bouncing from doctor to doctor trying to figure out what’s causing them. That’s the stark reality for the more than 6 million women in the U.S. living with endometriosis.There’s a reason it often goes underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed for so long: There’s no simple test for it and symptoms can manifest differently for different women or overlap with other health problems. The only way to know for sure that you have it is to go through laparoscopic surgery, which allows doctors to see if there’s endometrial tissue…
Seattle’s Cal Raleigh — better known by the catchy nickname “Big Dumper” — has lived up to the moniker, dropping baseballs into the outfield seats all over the big leagues this season.Manager Dan Wilson has been in awe of his talents.“That’s what you get from Cal,” Wilson said. “Night in, night out, blocking balls, calling the game, leading a pitching staff, throwing runners out — that’s what Cal does and he does it very well.”Oh … wait a second. Wilson obviously wasn’t taking about Raleigh’s prodigious power — he’s talking about how the 28-year-old handles the most demanding defensive position…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers went back to a familiar face when coach Kyle Shanahan looked to revive a defensive unit that had gone from dominant to mediocre in recent years.The Niners brought back Robert Saleh for a second stint as coordinator in hopes that he could once again build back the defense in similar fashion to what he did in 2019 when San Francisco’s stingy defense helped carry the team to the Super Bowl.“His commanding presence in defensive meetings is what we needed,” star defensive end Nick Bosa said.The 49ers aren’t the only contender that…
Many companies are focused on building robots, or the hardware components to help them move, grip objects, or interact with the world around them. OpenMind is focused under the hood. The Silicon Valley-based startup is building a software layer, called OM1, for humanoid robots that acts as an operating system. The company compares itself to being the Android for robotics because its software is open and hardware agnostic. Stanford professor Jan Liphardt, the founder of OpenMind, told TechCrunch that humanoids and other robots have been around and able to do repetitive tasks for decades. But now that humanoids are being…
About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each year. As I explain in my recent book, “Stillbirth and the Law,” the fact that so few fetal autopsies are performed after stillbirths is actually a driver of the disproprotionately high number of stillbirths in the U.S.One major exception to the rarity of fetal autopsies is when pregnancy loss ends with criminal arrest. Arrests after pregnancy loss…
Plastic pollution is a “grave, growing and under-recognized danger” to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said.The new review of existing evidence, which was carried out by leading health researchers and doctors, was published one day ahead of fresh talks in Geneva aiming at getting the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution. The experts called for the delegates from nearly 180 nations expected to attend the gathering to finally agree on a treaty after previous failed attempts.Comparing plastic to air and lead pollution, the report…
This should be an exhilarating moment for college tennis.Wimbledon featured a record 26 current or former college players in men’s singles and nine more in the women’s draw. TCU’s Jack Pinnington Jones and San Diego’s Oliver Tarvet, who reached the second round, played for their college teams just this spring. Ben Shelton, a 2022 NCAA singles champion at Florida, reached the quarterfinals.All of this is occurring as the threat of elimination faces numerous tennis programs.According to the International Tennis Association, which governs college tennis, Division I schools dropping tennis since 2023 include Central Arkansas (women), Eastern Illinois (men and women),…