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Differences in cerebrospinal fluid proteins distinguished women with multiple sclerosis from age-matched controls in a small exploratory study, highlighting potential hormonal and immune-related biological mechanisms. Findings require validation in larger populations before clinical application.

Six weeks of moderate sleep restriction increased weight, waist circumference, and sedentary time in adults with baseline adequate sleep and elevated cardiometabolic risk.

A JCEM clinical guidance article outlines a two-criterion diagnostic standard for adolescent PCOS, requiring both persistent hyperandrogenism and menstrual irregularity, and frames adolescence as the critical window for metabolic and psychosocial risk stratification.

The American Thyroid Association released updated evidence-based recommendations for thyroid disease in preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum, incorporating new trial data on LT4 treatment thresholds, TPOAb management, and ATD safety that diverge meaningfully from 2017 guidance.

An international consensus involving more than 14,000 patients and health professionals renamed polycystic ovary syndrome to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) to reflect its endocrine and metabolic features.

“The FDA is failing women by denying access to a hormone their bodies naturally produce.” — Kelly Casperson, MD