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Senior Editor at The Lancet Obstetric, Gynaecology, and Women's Health, views are my own

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Heavy menstrual bleeding: an overlooked global burden Heavy menstrual bleeding is defined by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as β€œexcessive menstrual blood loss which interferes with the woman's physical, emotional, social,...

"Heavy menstrual bleeding is common, consequential, and treatable. The failure to adequately address this debilitating symptom reflects not a lack of clinical solutions but a lack of urgency." Read our latest Editorial on HMB here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

11.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A really interesting chat about acute heavy menstrual bleeding and the impact of emergency treatment. I'd recommend listening, but I'm biased

08.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Measuring large language model uncertainty in women's health using semantic entropy and perplexity: a comparative study Semantic entropy offers a robust and scalable method to identify uncertain or potentially misleading outputs from LLMs. Semantic entropy could support safer artificial intelligence-assisted clinical d...

NEW! Researchers at the University of Oxford have assessed the use of large-language models in women's health. They used validated question–answer pairs (obtained from the RCOG) to compare semantic entropy and perplexity for detecting inaccurate answers www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ox.ac.uk

14.08.2025 08:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very interesting first day at #BGCS2025, representing @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social, and great to be there with colleagues from @eclinicalmed.bsky.social and @thelancetoncol.bsky.social. We'd love to chat with you about your work and our journals! Looking forward to day 2.

11.07.2025 06:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very pleased to be back at #ESHRE2025 representing @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social. Please do reach out if interested, I'd love to chat about your work and our journal

30.06.2025 06:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Promotional card. Contact Ben Burwood regarding content enquiries at benjamin.burwood@lancet.com. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

Promotional card. Contact Ben Burwood regarding content enquiries at benjamin.burwood@lancet.com. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

Very excited to be heading to the Women's Health Summit on June 20th next week. If you're attending and would like to discuss your work or @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social, please don't hesitate to reach out. Learn more about our scope and global reach & impact here: hubs.li/Q03l_7gb0

11.06.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Text is on a purple background and says "Publish with us. Dedicated to bridging clinical evidence and practice to transform the lives of women".  An illustration in pink depicts women in medicine.

Text is on a purple background and says "Publish with us. Dedicated to bridging clinical evidence and practice to transform the lives of women". An illustration in pink depicts women in medicine.

We’re dedicated to publishing original research, evidence-based reviews, and insightful features on #womenshealth and #obgyn, throughout the entire life courseβ€”from adolescence to menopause and beyond.
Explore our aims and scope and submit your manuscript today! Find out more ➑️ bit.ly/3E6vIsq

04.04.2025 07:06 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

In some personal news, I'm very pleased to say that today marks day 1 of my new role as a Senior Editor at The Lancet #Obstetrics, #Gynaecolgy, and #Women'sHealth. Super excited to be joining the team and I'm looking forward to highlighting the key advances across the fields

03.03.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The eCM team on 2024 and 2025 - eClinicalMedicine in conversation with The eClinicalMedicine team come together to discuss 2024 and 2025 in an editorial round table. Ben Burwood is joined by Hannah Linne and Rachel Kerslake to discuss obesity, AI, recessive dystrophic ep...

Very excited to say that the latest episode of the eClinicalMedicine podcast is now live. In this episode, we look back on 2024 and ahead to 2025 discussing a range of highlights including #HIV, #AI, #obesity, and the impact of politics on health care: www.buzzsprout.com/1845316/epis...

29.01.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
eClinicalMedicine, December 2024, Volume 78 New general medicine open access journal, published by The Lancet, influencing clinical practice and health policy.

Latest issue of eClinicalMedicine is live, featuring an editorial on #GLP-1 receptor agonists: www.thelancet.com/issue/S2589-...

18.12.2024 12:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0