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Experts discussing rising breast cancer diagnoses cite both incidence increases and improved detection, alongside persistent concerns about diagnostic delays. The commentary does not establish that more patient-centered care explains the increase.

In a specialty-clinic cohort of 2,329 adults with Neuro-PASC, females reported more neurologic symptoms, greater fatigue, and, among nonhospitalized patients, poorer attention than males approximately 16 months after symptom onset.

Female mice recovering from a single ketamine exposure demonstrated microglia-driven neuroplasticity through FKBP51 activation, while male mice did not. The findings identify a sex-specific biologic pathway in a preclinical model, and human relevance remains unconfirmed.

Women with Parkinson disease exhibited greater Alzheimer-related amyloid plaque burden than men in an autopsy-confirmed cohort, although cognitive performance and dementia rates were similar between sexes.

After 23 years, men offered once-only sigmoidoscopy had 1.7 fewer colorectal cancers and 0.8 fewer CRC deaths per 100. In women, the mortality benefit didn’t reach significance.

“The amygdala’s response to social threat appears to feed into depressive symptoms much more strongly in young males than in young females.” — John Krystal, MD, Biological Psychiatry