Communications medicine

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain may involve both nociceptive pain driven by peripheral tissue damage and nociplastic pain reflecting central nervous system dysregulation, as in fibromyalgia. Electroacupuncture has been shown to modulate these path…

Endometriosis is defined as the ectopic proliferation of endometrial cells. Aberrant signal transduction is present in ectopic endometriotic lesions, and bacteria also contributes to the development of endometriosis by transmitting pathogen…

BACKGROUND: Despite the availability of endometriosis care guidelines from multiple governmental and professional organisations, their global applicability and recommendations have been insufficiently examined. This scoping review examines …

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is a major female reproductive health issue with heterogeneous biological features on its subtypes, which may require different therapeutic strategies. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists were repor…

BACKGROUND: Progesterone receptor antagonists such as mifepristone have emerged as candidates for breast cancer prevention, particularly in high-risk populations such as BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant carriers. However, their impact on endometr…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis, despite its high prevalence, is underdiagnosed and poorly managed due to lack of clinically validated biomarkers and pathophysiological insight. Menstrual blood-derived stem cells have been implicated in disease p…

BACKGROUND: The impact of early-life traumatic experiences on late-life morbidity, or chronic conditions, remains unclear. We tested the hypothesis that traumatic adverse childhood experiences, such as physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual…

BACKGROUND: The burden of comorbidities in those with uterine fibroids compared to those without fibroids is understudied. We performed a phenome-wide association study to systematically assess the association between fibroids and other con…

BACKGROUND: Uterine fibroids (UFs), benign tumours prevalent in up to 80% of women of reproductive age, are associated with significant morbidity, including abnormal uterine bleeding, pain and infertility. Despite identification of key geno…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality of all gynecological cancers and surgery is commonly used as final diagnostic. Available literature indicates that women with benign tumors could often be conservatively managed, but accu…

BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine disorder and a leading cause of infertility. When accompanied by anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPOAb), PCOS patients may face an increased risk of reproductive compli…

Systematic under-representation of pregnant women and gender diverse pregnant people in clinical research has prevented them from benefitting fairly from biomedical advances. The resulting lack of pharmacological safety and efficacy data le…

BACKGROUND: High ovarian cancer mortality rates motivate the development of effective and patient-friendly diagnostics. Here, we explored the potential of molecular testing in patient-friendly samples for ovarian cancer detection. METHODS:…

BACKGROUND: Assisted reproductive technology accounts for an increasing proportion of infertility treatments, and assessments to predict clinical pregnancy outcomes are desired. Extracellular vesicles exist in follicular fluid, and small no…

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the relationship between early life body size and occurrence of life-course multiple chronic diseases (multimorbidity). We aim to evaluate associations of birth weight, childhood body size, and their change…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer among women and due to late detection prognosis is poor with an overall 5-year survival of 30-50%. Novel biomarkers are needed to reduce diagnostic surgery and enable detection of …