i HATE it so much when fun news about plant intelligence come out because journalists will spin the most sensationalist headlines & then people on twitter will think it counts as an “argument” against veganism & i will have to read the dumbest takes…. i need a lobotomy
“Women with asthma are twice as likely to die from an asthma attack compared with men in the UK, new figures show as health experts called for urgent research into the condition’s sex-related differences.
They are more likely to have the condition, more likely to need hospital treatment for it and more likely to die from an attack, Asthma + Lung UK said.
Over the past five years women have accounted for more than two-thirds of asthma deaths in the UK.
The charity said the current “one size fits all” approach to asthma treatment is “not working” because it does not take into account the impact that female sex hormones during puberty, periods, pregnancy and menopause can have on asthma symptoms and attacks.
More must be done to tackle the “stark health inequality”, it added.
In childhood, asthma is more prevalent and severe in boys. However, after puberty the situation completely reverses, Asthma + Lung UK said. (…)
“There seemed to be a pattern to my symptoms, linked to my menstrual cycle. Nearly every month in the run up to my period, I’d be really ill with my asthma.
My symptoms would leave me struggling to breathe, which was terrifying, and I’d often end up in hospital.” (…)
The Asthma + Lung UK chief executive, Sarah Woolnough, said: “When it comes to research funding, women with asthma have drawn the short straw.
Gaps in our knowledge are failing women, leaving them struggling with debilitating asthma symptoms, stuck in a cycle of being in and out of hospital and, in some cases, losing their lives.”
One of the best ways to fight against the system is to become more self-sufficient.
Bingo… Regardless of your fight, regardless of your political predispositions, regardless of your place in society - become more and more self sufficient, and they will have less and less hold over you and your daily life
as an ex-catholic it’s very funny to see ‘catholic convert’ in people’s bios it’s akin to running out of a burning skyscraper and passing someone heading on up to the top floor
Good morning. Just your friendly reminder that a judge who carefully reviewed Amber Heard’s evidence over the course of months found that Johnny Depp was proven to have abused her on at least 12 occasions, a ruling reviewed and reinforced by another judge, meanwhile a jury that sat at home able to look at Camille Vasquez #girlboss TikToks for a month deliberated only 12 hours to decide she lied but then couldn’t even fill out the form right.
“Some attorneys for abusers are in a class by themselves. I have rarely seen anyone become as vicious and unprincipled in the role of co-abuser of a man’s partner as certain lawyers do. Woman after woman has described to me the way her heart begins to race when she sees the abuser’s attorney at court or the jolt she feels when court papers prepared by the attorney arrive at her home.
An abuser or accused abuser of course has the right to legal representation, as anyone does. But does offering proper legal counsel mean that the attorney needs to insult and deride the woman, make far-fetched accusations against her, treat every allegation made by the man as gospel truth, and even lie at times to promote his goals? Of course not. However, such conduct is disturbingly widespread among certain defense attorneys who represent accused abusers as well as among some family law attorneys handling custody and visitation cases. Some of this behavior appears to be motivated by economics: Attorneys can build a successful practice if word gets around that they specialize in representing accused abusers.
Abusers love it when they hear that a certain attorney has a reputation for ‘really going for the woman’s jugular,’ since that ruthless orientation is in keeping with their own. Women are sometimes as traumatized by their ex-partner’s attorney as they were by him. There is an urgent need for the creation of legal standards for attorneys who represent accused abusers, so that a sharp line is drawn between giving a man a proper chance to have his side heard in court, which is his legal right, and acting as a weapon of the man’s abuse, allowing him to cause financial and psychological damage that would have been impossible for him without the lawyer’s assistance.”
ALT