In Namibia,the Value Added Tax(VAT)Amendment Act 2022,which reclassified the supply of sanitary pads as zero-rated,has significant implications for adolescent girls’menstrual health and education.The policy change re...
The menstrual cycle has been a topic of interest in relation to behavior and cognition for many years, with historical beliefs associating it with cognitive impairment. However, recent research has challenged these be...
National Key Research and Development Program of China,Grant/Award Numbers:2019YFC0840600,2019YFC0840609;Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Grant/Award Number:2022ZFJH003;Independent Project Fund of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Disease。
Acute liver failure is a life-threatening syndrome,for which liver transplantation is presently the most effective treatment.Unfortunately,such treatment is extremely limited by a shortage of donor organs.Stem cell th...
MENSTRUAL HEALTH Menstrual health is a general biological marker for many cisgender women,transgender men and non-binary people.Despite more than half of the population being people who menstruate,stigma,lack of conve...
Sexual and reproductive health(SRH)services are crucial for women especially during disasters,to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity from miscarriages,unsafe abortions,and post-abortion complications.This study ex...
Background: The myometrium at the location of the CS (caesarean section) scars, also known as residual myometrium thickness (RMT), is larger after a double-layer uterine closure procedure than following a single-layer...
Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.7192211);China International Medical Foundation(No.Z-2018-40-2101)
To the Editor:Systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE)is an autoimmune disease that tends to affect females of childbearing age.There are nearly 4 million people in China currently suffering from SLE,which can cause multiple...
National Key R&D Program of China,No.2022YFA1105603 and 2022YFC2304405;Hangzhou Science and Technology Project,China,No.20200224;National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81900563;Key Research&Development Plan of Zhejiang Province,China,No.2019C03015 and 2020C04016。
BACKGROUND Mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs)have been used in liver transplantation and have certain effects in alleviating liver ischemia-reperfusion injury(IRI)and regulating immune rejection.However,some studies have in...
Background: Approximately, half a million of adolescent girls in the world feel frustrated during their monthly period due to poor menstrual hygiene practices. In the low-and-middle income countries, about three-quart...
supported by Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81721091);The Independent Task of State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases,The First Affiliated Hospital,Zhejiang University School of Medicine。
Autoimmune hepatitis(AIH)is a severe globally distributed liver disease that could occur at any age.Human menstrual blood-derived stem cells(MenSCs)have shown therapeutic effect in acute lung injury and liver failure....