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In today’s edition: women’s health goes to Davos, the nitty-gritty on why postpartum psychosis isn’t quite defined yet, which women are most likely to die from abortion bans, and more below.
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UNNECESSARY PREGNANCY SCARE // The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, reports that a review of 43 studies found no evidence that using Tylenol in pregnancy causes autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability. They looked at sibling comparisons specifically (among other rigorous studies) and found it could be pain, fever, genetic disposition, or many other causes that led to the mild associations, not the pills themselves.
JUST 44% POINTS AWAY FROM EQUALITY // Davos is happening (an annual gathering of business, tech, government elite in Switzerland) and the World Economic Forum is technically in charge of the event. So, it means something that they released a report, along with consulting firm BCG, on how women make up nearly half the planet but attract only about 6% of global health investment. (In other words: elites pay attention and spend more money on women’s health research!)
POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS // A deep dive from the New York Times on postpartum psychosis and whether it deserves its own slot in psychiatry’s rule book, known as the D.S.M. This seems like it should be obvious, and a group of women’s health experts have been fighting for it for more than five years. Why hasn’t it made it? It’s complicated.
ABORTION BANS KILL WOMEN ALREADY AT RISK // ProPublica reports that the women most likely to die from abortion bans are those who are already have chronic conditions that make their pregnancy high risk. The bans essentially trap them life‑threatening pregnancies, while doctors hesitate to act until it’s too late.
BLOOD TEST FOR CANCER TREATMENT? // The London’s Institute of Cancer Research found in a small test that a blood test measuring microscopic levels of cancer DNA helped spot, within weeks, whether a breast cancer treatment is actually doing its job. With more research it’s something that could save patients time, side effects, and false hope.
A COOL $1 TRILLION // McKinsey follows up on the JPM Health Conference, breaking down how actually focusing on women’s health could add $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040. TLDR: women’s health isn’t a niche, it’s a massive market.