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WHO Review Links Cigarette Smoking to Lower Fertility—And Finds Quitting Matters
A WHO review says women who currently smoke face an estimated 40% higher risk of infertility than non-smokers, while former smokers fare better than current smokers. The evidence supports cessation care, not blame for people already navigating infertility.
A Breast-Cancer Trial Missed Its Goal—Without Erasing Camizestrant’s Other Evidence
Camizestrant plus palbociclib did not significantly delay progression in a large first-line trial. Patients should read this as a result about one combination and treatment setting, not as proof that the medicine has no role in breast-cancer care.
Paracetamol Study Finds Differences in Girls’ Reproductive Development—not Future Infertility
A Danish observational study linked prenatal paracetamol exposure with smaller average ovarian and uterine measurements in girls. The research cannot prove the medicine caused the differences, cannot predict fertility and does not justify abruptly abandoning treatment for pain or fever during pregnancy.
India’s Food-Label Fight Turns on a Two-Nutrient Loophole
: Health advocates have asked India’s Supreme Court to reject warning-label rules that may leave a high-sugar product unmarked unless another nutrient also exceeds limits. The case will test whether front-of-pack labels communicate a real risk or merely the appearance of regulation.
Kyiv’s Maternity Teams Keep Delivering as Air Raids Intensify
Mothers and clinicians in Ukraine’s capital are making urgent decisions about labour during repeated drone attacks. Their experience shows that maternal care in war depends on shelters, power, water and staff—not resilience slogans.
Weight-Loss Prescribing for US Children Under 12 Has Surged—Evidence Must Catch Up
A large health-record study found a steep rise in GLP-1 prescriptions for children aged eight to 11 with obesity, nearly all of them with severe disease. The trend could help girls facing serious complications, but long-term safety, access and sex-specific outcomes remain uncertain.
A Deadlocked Trial Exposed the Gaps Around Postpartum Psychosis
A Massachusetts jury could not agree whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when she killed her three children. The case cannot diagnose other mothers, but it has exposed how little many families and clinicians know about a rare, severe and treatable postpartum emergency.
PCOS Has a New Name: What Women Should Know About PMOS
A condition millions of women know as PCOS is now being called Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, or PMOS. The new name does not mean your previous diagnosis was wrong—it is intended to better reflect what the condition actually does throughout the body.
Cameroon Study Finds Severe Trauma Symptoms—and a Warning Against Individualising Recovery
Almost all 133 internally displaced women in a new Cameroon study crossed a screening threshold for probable PTSD. Personal “sense of coherence” was associated with fewer symptoms, but the small cross-sectional study does not make coping a substitute for safety and mental-health services.
Aerobic Exercise Improved Some Thinking Skills After Menopause
A six-month randomised trial found gains in executive function among postmenopausal women assigned to aerobic exercise. The small study did not improve memory or prove that exercise prevents dementia.
Thirty-Six OCD Risk Genes Open Research Paths, Not Instant Treatments
An international sequencing study identified 36 genes associated with large increases in risk for obsessive-compulsive and chronic tic disorders. The discovery may guide drug research, but it is not a diagnostic genetic test and did not provide women-specific results.