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Smaller airways in women may explain their worse respiratory outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD , a large cohort study suggested. For never-smokers and ever-smokers alike, CT imaging revealed that men had thicker airway walls than women, who also had smaller airway lumen dimensions after accounting for height and total lung capacity. Historically, COPD has been more frequent in men, but changing factors in smoking behavior and urbanization have resulted in its prevalence becoming more similar between the sexes, according to the investigators. Meanwhile, they noted that women experience worse COPD symptoms for a given degree of airflow obstruction. Age-adjusted rates of COPD-related deaths are on the decline in men, but not in women , who tend to have greater airflow obstruction and faster lung function decline after adjustment for smoking burden.

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. The uterus has long doubled as a political tool. Mental stimulation, some 19th-century doctors argued , could harm their reproductive systems.

This story was originally published by MindSite News and is republished here with permission. One in five adult women and about a third of adolescent girls experience domestic violence during pregnancy. And recently, she said, two patients with pre-existing mental health issues experienced a worsening of those conditions as a result of an unwanted pregnancy. Ohio denied an abortion for a year-old girl who found herself pregnant after being raped—a decision that forced her to cross states lines to get the procedure.

After years of performance reviews describing her outstanding work ethic, her fortunes turned once she started reporting to a woman 20 years her junior. Under her new manager, Susan felt set up to fail—she was assigned more cases and held to much higher standards than her younger colleagues. Although Susan was supposed to have 90 days to improve, her manager fired her after a few days.