Sex Differences in COVID-19 Immune Responses Affect Patient Outcomes < Women's Health Research at Yale

Sex Differences in COVID-19 Immune Responses Affect Patient Outcomes < Women's Health Research at Yale

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Sex Differences in COVID-19 Immune Responses Affect Patient Outcomes  Yale investigators have identified significant differences in how the immune systems of women and men respond to the virus that causes COVID-19.

NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL) and Working Group Meeting The National Institutes of Health will host a meeting with the HEAL Initiative Multi-Disciplinary Working Group (MDWG) to discuss Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or HEAL research and facilitate the exchange of scientific information about HEAL projects. 

After chronic stress in adolescence, male and female reactions to trauma differ later in life  A research team at VCU has found that sex makes a difference in how the brain’s chemistry changes based on situations such as automobile crashes or other traumatic injuries.

New tool compares rates of severe pregnancy complications across U.S. hospitals NIH-funded researchers have developed a new system for classifying severe maternal morbidity life-threatening complications associated with childbirth across U.S. hospitals. 

Report: Caregiving in the U.S. 2020 The 2020 update reveals an increase in the number of family caregivers in the United States of 9.5 million from 2015 to 2020 and 61% of caregivers are women.