Common Corpus

Curating the latest evidence-based information on women's health for every woman, at any stage of life.

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Private menopause care can solve one access problem while exposing another.
Faster specialist care has value. Care that depends on ability to pay raises an equity problem.
The deeper question is why reliable menopause care remains difficult to access in primary healthcare.

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Working conditions matter, not just for mothers but also for babies.
Link: https://t.co/2oW04aRUy8

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Researchers compared physician and lawyer mothers for birth outcomes. Physicians had higher rates of low birth weight and small-for-gestational-age births, largely driven by physicians surgeons. When working hours were limited through a policy reform, birth outcomes improved.

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A cognitive test can measure memory well and still miss part of the story.
If groups begin with different average verbal-memory performance, the same cut-off may not always represent the same amount of decline.
Baseline matters.
Read more in this week’s edition of Common Corpus.

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Younger women with acute coronary syndromes remain an under-recognized cardiac population. The risk factors may be familiar. The patient often does not match the stereotype. That mismatch can matter. @American_Heart

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Edition 17 of Common Corpus is live.

Heart risk beyond the usual profile. Alzheimer’s testing beyond verbal memory. Pregnancy health beyond the clinic. Menopause care beyond the public system. And more.

Read edition 17 here: https://t.co/Gm5eOD1ojP

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Read more in this week's Common Corpus: https://t.co/gcAQN7P1cx

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Women’s heat risk is not simply “women sweat less”.
Sex can affect thermoregulation, but so can pregnancy, age, fitness, acclimatisation, health, work, housing and access to cooling.
Heat vulnerability is biological and social.

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“No family history” is not the same as “no breast cancer risk”.
Family history matters. But new research on women under-50 shows why it may be too narrow for deciding who receives a fuller risk assessment.
Read more in this week's edition of Common Corpus.

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Listening recommendation:
BBC World Service asks, “Are women the stronger sex?”
The useful question is less about declaring a winner and more about how narrowly we define strength.
Full episode: https://t.co/E6Yma9Kwyy
@bbcworldservice

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@JAMAPsych Read more in this week's edition of Common Corpus: https://t.co/gcAQN7P1cx

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A vibrating capsule gave researchers an unusual window into anorexia recovery.
62 weight-restored participants with restrictive anorexia were less accurate than 57 healthy comparators at detecting normal-intensity gut vibrations. @JAMAPsych

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@Cambridge_Uni Read more in this week's edition of Common Corpus: https://t.co/gcAQN7P1cx

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New UK research found current NICE referral criteria missed up to 95% of under-50 women who developed breast cancer within 10 years. Multi-factorial risk assessments identified up to 8x more women who developed breast cancer.
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Heavy menstrual bleeding has a hidden workload.
Clothes. Toilets. Travel. Meetings. Sleep. Leakage planning.
The burden is not only the symptom itself.
It is the amount of attention the symptom takes from everything else.
The full story in this week’s edition of Common Corpus.

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Edition 16 of Common Corpus is live.
Heavy periods beyond blood loss. Breast risk beyond family history. Anorexia recovery beyond weight. Strength beyond male benchmarks. Heat risk beyond temperature.
Full edition here: https://t.co/gcAQN7P1cx

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This SHE MD podcast episode lays out all you need to know about UTIs: https://t.co/74JxB0iWJJ
One of the clearest, most comprehensive explanations of UTIs and how to approach thinking about treatments. Worth a listen.

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“Whether a person survives cancer should never depend on where they were born or what they earn.”
The WHO reports 87% five-year breast cancer survival in high-income countries, versus about 42% in low-income countries. @WHO
WHO report: https://t.co/h0Ai17r13b

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Listening recommendation:
CBC’s White Coat, Black Art explores a permanent birth control operation that may also lower the risk of the most common ovarian cancer subtype.
The full podcast here: https://t.co/ryAmUyh7VO

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@JAMANetworkOpen Read the full study: https://t.co/y1JY8TJD05

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In a specialist-clinic study of 447 patients with vulvovaginal disorders, 52.8% said they had considered stopping care because their concerns were not addressed. 39.4% said they were made to feel crazy.
Dismissive behaviour can become a barrier to care itself. @JAMANetworkOpen