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Sunday Snippets is a round-up of recent women’s health news that we haven’t otherwise posted on—just the headlines and the link for the story. See what interests you and click for more. Through April 2025, Snippets is available free to all subscribers. Starting May 4, Snippets will be a thank you perk for paid subscribers.
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In [another] reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for the WHI, Women’s Health Initiative. The April 21 defunding of this, and the refunding four days later, was by far the biggest news of the week in women’s health, both in the US and abroad.
Once again, the administration does a 180, this time in four days, reinstating a once-in-a-lifetime longitudinal study of women's health, reversing a defunding decision that shocked medical researchers. After stunned push back worldwide it was back on. The current Women's Health Initiative study enrolled more than 162,000 women in 2010, with researchers following up with them every year, collecting data on health issues like cardiovascular disease, cancers, and bone fractures, among others that simply have not been studied in any meaningful, longterm way before. The WHI is giving us the first health research data, ever, on women in their 70s and 80s.
BBC Science Focus: I’m a women’s health doctor. Here’s what we get wrong about perimenopause.
Both hormonal and natural treatments can be used to treat disruptive perimenopause symptoms; clues for what’s right for you.
BioSpace: Economic Challenges, Strategic Investments: Reshaping the Women’s Health Landscape. Note we’ve published substantially on this very timely topic; see our archives.
Lori Ellis, head of insights at BioSpace, talked about collaboration and investment shaping the future of women’s health with a partner at Kearney and the director of strategic initiatives at the National Academy of Medicine.
Health Policy Watch News: US Food Industry to Phase Out Petroleum-based Dyes
Petroleum-based dyes will be removed from popular cereals—think colorful kids’ cereals, drinks and other foods, the US Department of Health and Human Services has announced. Other than the food industry, not a whole lot of people are fighting this one.
Forbes: The Economic And Social Consequences Of The Women's Health Gap
Forbes joins other business networks calling the lack of funding and research in women’s health “an economic and social crisis.”
Health Policy Watch News: Recent Aid Cuts Jeopardize 40% Reduction in Maternal Mortality Since 2000
Worldwide a woman dies every two minutes from childbirth and maternal complications—and the US has a very long way to go on this. Cuts to USAID promise even more maternal deaths.
Women’s Health: Walking just 11 minutes every day could add years to your life
Walking at a solid pace for just 11 minutes a day—75 minutes/week spread out over seven days—can lower the risk of cardiovascular disease by 17% and cancer by 7%. No need to stop after 11 minutes, of course—it’s the 75 minutes/week that’s the goal.
Contemporary OB-Gyn: New study highlights growth of women veterans’ health literature
There are 2 million US women veterans, making up 10% of the current veteran population and expected to rise to 18% by 2040. And yet research on women vets has been lacking; no surprise if you’ve read our other posts on the paucity of women’s health research in general. A new study finds that research has improved significantly; now to keep up that pace during the current administration.
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