A team of scientists led by the University of California San Francisco have developed a new breast cancer screening method that assesses a woman's individual risk for developing the disease. This could revolutionize traditional screening methods, which are primarily based solely on age.
A new study has found occupations commonly held by immigrant women living in the United States, such as house cleaners and nurses, have increased exposure to chemicals linked to breast cancer and other common chronic diseases.
Dr. McLaughlin was honored for a recent study she led that exposed racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in postpartum care for women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. She currently serves as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
The Living Legends are Dyanne Affonso of the University of Toronto, Connie Delaney of the University of Minnesota, Judith Haber of New York University, Christine Miaskowski of the University of California, San Francisco, and Phyllis Sharp of Johns Hopkins University.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
According to a new study led by scholars at Columbia University, the increasingly widespread legalization of marijuana throughout the country has coincided with a significant rise in the number of women who use cannabis during pregnancy.
Susan Richmond of Georgia State University, Saba Rasheed Ali of the University of Iowa, Jinoos Yazdany of the University of California, San Fransisco, and Shivaani Kummar of Oregon Health & Science University have been appointed to new academic positions at their institutions.
The women appointed to endowed professorships are Bonnie Joe at the University of California, San Francisco, Kristin Vekasi at the University of Montana, and Ellen Lust at Cornell University in New York.
The women appointed to endowed positions are Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire at Harvard University, Martina Droth at Yale University, Adriana Petryna at the University of Pennsylvania, Nicole Eikmeier at Grinnell College in Iowa, and Christine Glastonbury at the University of California, San Francisco.
Scholars from Columbia University have found women born in U.S. states with a high level of structural sexism may experience cognitive decline earlier in life than women born in other states.
Firefighters have an increased cancer incidence compared to the general population, however the majority of research in this area has centered around men. A new study has sought out to identity what chemicals women firefighters are exposed to that could be increasing their risk of breast cancer.
