Women's Health: New online tool created to tackle complications of pregnancy, childbirth ♦ Sex reassignment surgery may be better for transgender women’s health than hormones only

Despite substantial progress, the world fell short of the maternal mortality target in the Millennium Development Goals Despite reducing maternal mortality by an impressive 44 percent between 1990 and 2015, the world fell well short of the target of a 75 percent reduction that appeared in the Millennium Development Goals.

Sex reassignment surgery may be better for transgender women’s health than hormones only Transgender women may be at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes compared with men and women in the general population. Transgender women who received only hormone therapy had poorer metabolic health than transgender women who underwent sex reassignment surgery in addition to receiving hormone therapy, suggesting that sex reassignment surgery may be metabolically protective.

Parasitic worms affect human reproduction Anthropologists study the Tsimane people of Bolivia to determine how parasitism affects female fertility.

New online tool created to tackle complications of pregnancy, childbirth An interdisciplinary team of biologists and medical researchers has created a new platform, which they call GEneSTATION specifically designed to leverage the growing knowledge of human genomics and evolution to advance scientific understanding of human pregnancy and translate it into new treatments for the problems that occur when this complex process goes awry.

Health News: Parasitic worms in fish ruins AZ couples dinner plans ♦ Humane Society files complaint against Costco's egg supplier ♦ 232 sickened in outbreak linked to NC restaurant

Parasitic worms in fish ruins AZ couples dinner plans“She was screaming my name, and I thought something horrible had happened. I come rushing in, and she was like ‘You need to look at these worms, these worms!” For this Arizona couple, it was supposed to be a quiet night with a home-cooked meal. But, when Jen Chafitz found two parasitic worms crawling around the salmon she had just purchased, those plans went flying out the window.

Humane Society files complaint with FDA against Costco's egg supplier The Humane Society of the United States has filed legal complaints with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Hillandale Farms, a Costco egg supplier, has deceived consumers with its poor animal welfare standards and “filthy and unsanitary conditions,” resulting in food safety concerns. complaints come.

232 sickened in outbreak linked to NC restaurant The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported Tuesday that 232 cases of diarrheal illness have been identified which are associated with eating food from the Tarheel Q restaurant in Lexington, NC. The case distribution includes 16 North Carolina counties and five states.

Causal pathway may link job stress, sleep disturbances There may be a reciprocal, causal pathway between job strain and disturbed sleep, implying that interventions to treat sleep problems may improve work satisfaction, researchers have learned.

Innovative imaging study shows that the spinal cord learns on its own The spinal cord engages in its own learning of motor tasks independent of the brain, according to an innovative imaging study. The results of the study may offer new opportunities for rehabilitation after spinal cord injury.