Women’s Health Update: Menopause, Alzheimer’s, HIV Policy and More
From milestones in HIV prevention and bold global initiatives, this week’s Women’s Health Update delivers the most impactful developments across reproductive health, HIV, and public policy.
🔬 Key highlights:
⚖️ WeightWatchers launches a new integrated program for perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause following its financial reorganization.
🌍 The WHO issues an urgent call for two-million-dollar aid to address the health needs of over 836,000 Afghan women and children returnees.
🧠 New research explores why women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s, focusing on X chromosomes and the impact of menopause.
🤝 HIV drugmaker Theratechnologies agrees to a 254 million dollar buyout by CDMO Future Pak.
🏛️ 13 HIV organizations protest over nine point five billion dollars in NIH funding cuts, including a staggering forty-two percent budget cut for fiscal year 2026.
⚖️ Over 50 biotech leaders urge the FDA not to restrict mifepristone access, criticizing a report claiming one in ten women experience a serious adverse event and a 5.26 percent failure rate.
💉 A Supreme Court ruling clears the path for Gilead Sciences’ twice-yearly injectable HIV PrEP medication, Yeztugo, aiming to expand the U.S. PrEP market.
🇨🇳 China approves Innovent Biologics’ mazdutide, the world’s first dual glucagon/GLP-1 receptor agonist, for chronic weight management.
💔 Organon discontinues development of its endometriosis drug, OG-6219, after its Phase 2 study failed to meet its primary efficacy endpoint.
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