Who Faces More Sexism, Female Politicians Or Lab Rats?
ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, HuffPosters wrote about two very different groups facing gender bias in the workplace: female politicians and lab rats. Research shows...
View Article6 Things You Should Know About Uterus Transplants
Ten women in the United States will soon be chosen to undergo the nation's first uterus transplants, as part of a study at the Cleveland Clinic. Doctors at the hospital hope to perform the first uterus...
View ArticleFirst uterus transplants in US to be peformed at Cleveland Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic has announced that it will conduct the first "highly experimental" uterus transplant procedures in the U.S., giving some women a chance they may never have had to experience...
View ArticleMother of 3 adopted children is first U.S. uterus transplant recipient
(CNN)A 26-year-old mother of three adopted children is the first uterus transplant patient in the United States. Lindsey, who is only revealing her first name, received a uterus from an unidentified...
View Article'Unbelievable Event': Uterus Transplanted in a First for US
A 26-year-old woman who learned at age 16 that she would be unable to have children now has a chance to do so, thanks to the first uterus transplant in the U.S. The transplant provides hope for women...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic Performs First Successful Uterus Transplant In The U.S.
i A team of Cleveland Clinic transplant surgeons and gynecological surgeons perform the nation's first uterus transplant during a nine-hour surgery in Cleveland. AP hide caption toggle caption AP A...
View ArticleCountry’s First Uterus Transplant Could Give Infertile Women A Precious Gift...
When Jacklyn Misch heard about the first uterus transplant ever performed in the U.S., she started crying. Misch, 27, was diagnosed with a rare genetic syndrome called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser...
View ArticleFirst Uterus Transplant Performed in U.S.
There's exciting medical news this week for women who want to give birth but don't have a uterus -- needed to become pregnant and give birth -- because it was removed due to illness or they were born...
View ArticleUterus transplants: ‘My sister gave me her womb’
Lolita Wästerlund is one of the first women in the world to have a uterine transplant. Now this pioneering surgery is coming to Britain...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes / Expectations, challenges of uterus transplants
By Makiko Tatebayashi and Akihiko Kano / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WritersA team from Keio University intends to apply to its ethics committee this year for permission to conduct a clinical study related...
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Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams Cornell University For a long time, two seemingly inconsistent phenomena coexisted, but few seemed to notice: First, the oft-reported experiments demonstrating...
View ArticleHow to Stop Sexism at the Ballot Box
By Jeremy Adam Smith As Americans interview candidates for president, how can they make sure gender bias doesn't get in the way of hiring the right one? Can stereotypes stop Hillary Clinton from...
View ArticleAfter a Year of Disgraceful Sexism in Science, Congresswoman Speier Calls on...
(Source: Jackie Speier) November 3, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) sent a letter today to Dr. Rush Holt, head of the American Association for the...
View ArticleDoctors perform first uterus transplant in U.S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the first uterus transplant in the United States, using the uterus from a deceased organ donor, the hospital said this...
View ArticleStudy highlights woes of women politicians
ISLAMABAD: Women remain underrepresented in elected positions and senior ministerial posts in most developed and developing countries, says a study jointly undertaken by the World Bank and the Women in...
View ArticleMedical hope for infertile women
Uterine transplantation pairs specialists from fields known for innovation and for pushing medical and ethical limits. Picture: ISTOCK CLEVELAND, Ohio — Six doctors swarmed around the body of the dead...
View ArticleHillary Clinton can't afford to be thin-skinned on sexism
Add comment + - Hillary Clinton says she's running for president in a video posted to YouTube on April 12, 2015. Photo Credit: YouTube advertisement | advertise on newsday Cathy Young Cathy Young is a...
View ArticleSexism In Music Media: The Problem No One Wants to Address
If it’s January, Revolver’s "Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock" calendar must be out. As we move into the New Year, you can expect to see it in the greenrooms and offices throughout the music industry. Love...
View ArticleWill sexism be the U.S. presidential election’s November surprise? Here’s...
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. (Reuters/Mike Blake) Even before Hillary Clinton officially launched her bid for the White House last year, political observers speculated about whether...
View ArticleUS performs its first uterus transplant
The United States has completed its first uterus transplant surgery, following on a technique already proven in Sweden that could help women suffering from infertility, the...
View ArticleCasual Sexism In The Workplace May Affect Women More Than We Realize
Academic studies can be fascinating... and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. The Background Women make up nearly half of the...
View ArticleFirst U.S. uterus transplant fails, patient has organ removed
(CNN)The first patient in the United States to receive a uterus transplant had to have the organ removed because of a complication, the Cleveland Clinic announced Wednesday. The 26-year-old woman...
View ArticleMale Pregnancy Is Technically Within Reach, But Will Society Allow It?
! Some transwomen would likely be the first to sign up. Any woman who has ever been pregnant has wished that her male partner could experience what she went through. And by that we mean they probably...
View ArticleMore than 140 women contact Baylor for uterine transplants
A 26-year-old woman who is the first person in the U.S. to receive a uterus transplant told her story publicly for the first time Monday. The patient, identified only by her first name, Lindsey, had...
View ArticleFirst Uterus Transplant in US Gives Hope to Women With Rare Condition
For some women with a rare condition that has left them with little hope of bearing children, news of the first ever uterus transplant in the U.S. has offered hope that they may be able to carry...
View ArticleGender Bias In Medical Testing Puts Women's Health At Risk
Medical testing isn't immune to gender bias. Some researchers prefer to study men rather than women, and that could be a big problem. The gender bias dates back to the 1970s when the Food and Drug...
View ArticlePsychological Outcomes for Uterine Transplant Patients Are Good One Year...
(Source: American Society for Reproductive Medicine) July 28 , 2015 by: ASRM Office of Public Affairs Published in Fertility and Sterility in Press Swedish researchers have found that uterine...
View ArticleFirst Uterus Transplant In United States Fails, Organ Removed From Recipient
The first uterus transplant in the United States, which took place at the Cleveland Clinic just last month, has failed. CNN reports that the recipient, a 26-year old woman known only as Lindsey, had to...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic performs first uterus transplant in the U.S.
(CNN)A team of surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic performed the first uterus transplant in the United States this week. A 26-year-old woman received the new womb in a nine-hour operation, the hospital...
View ArticleFirst Uterus Transplant In U.S. Fails, Organ Removed Due To Complications
The first uterus transplant in the United States has failed only a month after the operation took place. Earlier this week, the Inquisitr reported that the first uterus transplant had been completed...
View ArticleMen Who Want To Be Fathers Could Stand To Watch Their Drinking, Too
According to a report this week from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3.3 million women -- or roughly one in 10 pregnant women -- are at risk for alcohol-exposed...
View ArticleCongenital abnormalities
Surgical solution Sometimes the cause of female infertility can be attributed to congenital anomalies or birth defects in the uterus. Other than infertility, these anomalies can cause recurrent...
View ArticleTake This Test to See How Biased You Are Against Having a Woman as President
Last week, Vox writer Emily Crockett wrote a great article about gender bias in how we think about leadership. She reviewed the results of new political science research. "One�experiment," she wrote,...
View ArticleUterus transplants may soon help some infertile women in the US become pregnant
Six doctors swarmed around the body of the deceased organ donor and quickly started to operate. The kidneys came out first. Then the team began another delicate dissection, to remove an organ that is...
View ArticleBaylor University Medical Center at Dallas Opens Womb Transplant Clinical...
(Source: Baylor Health Care System) Researchers are among the first in the U.S. to explore new infertility treatment option 01/29/2016 - Dallas Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas is among the...
View ArticleUS Uterus Transplants: 6 Things to Know
Ten women in the United States will soon be chosen to undergo the nation's first uterus transplants, as part of a study at the Cleveland Clinic. Doctors at the hospital hope to perform the first uterus...
View ArticleMouse Gata2 gene can affect female fertility and uterine susceptibility to...
(Source: Baylor College of Medicine) Understanding what affects the uterus' ability to prepare for pregnancy might someday help prevent or treat female infertility and cancer. In a study published in...
View ArticleDoctors Perform The First Uterus Transplant In The U.S.
A woman has undergone a uterus transplant for the first time in the United States. The team of transplant surgeons and gynecological surgeons carried out the 9-hour operation at Cleveland Clinic last...
View ArticleClaiming sexism in science is over is just wishful thinking
"Anti-female bias in academic hiring has ended," declare husband and wife social psychologists Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci in an opinion piece on CNN this week. They just published the results of a...
View ArticleOvercoming unconscious gender bias in academia
Training for staff in “overcoming unconscious bias” is promoted by Athena Swan, a UK-based gender equality organisation, from which NUIG is now seeking accreditation. Examples of such bias range from...
View ArticleHow Gender Bias Plays A Role In Elections
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina will have a more challenging time than their male opponents convincing voters that they're qualified to lead our country -- and it's all...
View ArticleThis is huge: A U.S. clinic has performed the country’s first uterus transplant
This is huge: A U.S. clinic has performed the country’s first uterus transplant Through the miracles of modern medicine, people without functioning uteruses have had other options for having biological...
View ArticleOhio Hospital Performs First Uterus Transplant In The U.S.
(Reuters) - Surgeons in Cleveland have performed the first uterus transplant in the United States, an Ohio medical center said on Thursday. The 26-year-old patient, who was not...
View Article6 Things To Know About Uterus Transplants In The U.S.
Ten women in the United States will soon be chosen to undergo the nation's first uterus transplants, as part of a study at the Cleveland Clinic. Doctors at the hospital hope to perform the first uterus...
View ArticleUS hospital to offer uterus transplants
A leading US hospital said Thursday it is preparing to offer women uterine transplants, a technology that has been proven in Sweden and could help those struggling with infertility. The Cleveland...
View ArticleMedical law expert on womb transplants, unisex pregnancy, and the ‘right to...
Shutterstock Could a womb be transplanted into a transgender woman – or even cisgender (non-transgender) men? Could pregnancy soon be unisex? These questions may sound as though they come from a sci-fi...
View ArticleHealth Research Ignores Women, And That Needs To Change ASAP
When the Food and Drug Administration approved Addyi, a prescription drug for women with low libido, this summer, it did so with a major caveat: Absolutely no drinking while taking the drug, or risk...
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