Sharan Kaur
@sherbsambhi
Sharan Kaur
Stanford Medicine-led study shows why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
med.stanford.edu
Still need to know:
1. specificity of Xist-complex autoantibodies for prediction vs diagnosis across autoimmune conditions
2. longitudinal studies needed to find out how xist expression boosted risk
3. which immune pathways are engaged
4. why some women and not all? genetic background + trigger
5. how do puberty, pregnancy, postpartum and menopause modulate xist formation clearance & antigen presentation.
Case Study: Maa Danteshwari Hospital – Healing Through Cultural Design
Location: Shodhgram, Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India
Founded by: Dr. Abhay Bang & Dr. Rani Bang, co-founders of SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health)
Type: Tribal-friendly, community-integrated hospital
Established: 1986 (SEARCH) | Hospital
“The time for incrementalism is over,” Dugan remarked. “Women have waited way too long.”
Forbes Power Women’s Summit 2025: Building What’s Next
powerful line, we’re in the time of leaps
How we treat mums, from the first decisions. Mums are the blank canvas for society to dump their childhood traumas
Cedars-Sinai partnered with femtech startup Tia to expand access to women's healthcare in Los Angeles, lending the prestigious health system's reputation to Tia's holistic care model. Then there's the Mount Sinai/Oula partnership mentioned at the start of this article, which established Oula's clinical credibility through measurable outcomes.
How Strategic Partnerships Are Solving Femtech's Growth Challenges
Really fucking interesting. Femtech embarking on strategic partnerships to expand reach, circumvent a shitty funding environemnt (4% of digital health investments to women’’s health), and unfriendly social media marketing norms hampering D2C marketing
Each party is committing $50 million toward development and research in women’s health, focusing particularly on conditions such as cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders and mental health—areas that are underfunded but have the greatest disproportionate impact on women.
Forbes Power Women’s Summit 2025: Building What’s Next
Increased concern for NCDs in women’s health – expanded from SRH, MCH
“It is estimated that of the 1.4 bn people with hypertension, over 1 bn reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs),” says Alta Schutte, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of New South Wales and co-director of the global cardiovascular programme at The George Institute for Global Health.
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[heart disease] [LMIC] more about NCDs in LMICs – hypertension disproportionately felt amongst women 60> because of the declining oestrogen. high-risk moments during pregnancy + post menopause.
At the HLTH conference in October, Gross pointed to OpenAI's vast reach; ChatGPT gets around 800 million active users every week, many of whom come with medical questions.
OpenAI is weighing a move into consumer health apps
How does AI respond to this massive responsibility? Lots of complaints surrounding AI as therapist / mental health infrastructure
Explaining creative 'Resistance': the more important a project is to your soul's growth, the more fear it generates.
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And I'd like your reflections on it and what you intended when you said it, which is, quote, the more important to your soul's growth, the stronger the resistance will be, which for me was very counterintuitive.
We all imagine the creative process as one of, you know, being inspired. Oh, this is my soul's work. and having a ton of motivation to
... See morefascinating - my aversion to almost everything