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Less than one-third of COVID-19 clinical trials are led by women, which is half the proportion observed in non-COVID-19 trials, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London, University of St Andrews, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
The study suggests that gender disparities during the pandemic may signify not only a lack of women s leadership in international clinical trials and new research projects, but also may expose the imbalances in women s access to research activities and funding during health emergencies.
The results of the study are being publicised to mark International Women s Day on Monday 8 March. This year s theme is Choose To Challenge which aims to encourage people to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.
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Repeated attendance at mammography screening confers protection against breast cancer mortality
Attending the two most recent screening appointments before a breast cancer diagnosis protects against breast cancer death, according to a Queen Mary study of over half a million Swedish women conducted over 24 years.
For women who had participated in both of their previous two screening examinations, the incidence of breast cancers proving fatal within 10 years of diagnosis was 50 per cent lower than in women who did not attend either of the last two screening examinations. Compared with women who attended only one of the two previous screens, women who attended both had a significant 22-33 per cent reduction in breast cancer mortality.
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The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography
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Computer-generated unfolding sequence of sealed letter DB-1538. Courtesy of the Unlocking History Research Group archive. The letters are from the Brienne Collection, Sound and Vision The Hague, The Netherlands.
The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography
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In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk containing over 2000 unclaimed letters was bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum. The letters were closed using an ancient technique called letterlocking, in which the writing paper is intricately folded and secured to become its own envelopes. Now an international team of researchers has virtually unfolded and unlocked the contents of one of the letters and the findings were published on Tuesday in