Registration is NOW OPEN! 📣 ”PMOS Across the Life Course" Details about the hotel & conference center, plus preliminary program are available on our website: www.aepmossociety.org/meetings 📍 Kittilä, Lapland 🇫🇮 🗓️ Dec 10-12, 2026 ⏳ Abstract submission deadline: July 31, 2026, 5:00pm EST.

The @wlvuni.bsky.social has been ranked in the top 10 per cent of UK higher education institutions for the quality of its Teaching, Learning Opportunities and Assessment, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) 2026 results. www.expressandstar.com/news/we-are-... ✨🤩🐺 #pmos #research

'We are proud of this achievement': West Midlands university ranked among UK’s best

The university has been ranked one of the top in the UK

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Thank you ALL for the birthday wishes 🤗🤩 
 Fantastic week 👉 from co-chairing an interdisciplinary panel w/ @helenerey.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk, to #PMOS data collection w/ members of @veritypcos.bsky.social, and HBD sung to me by kids during nutrition data collection at a school in Walsall! 🥳🙏❤️

#ProudFiancéMoment 🥹

Hélène Rey@helenerey.bsky.social · 4w ago

It was an absolute pleasure to co-chair an interdisciplinary panel on positionality, objectivity/subjectivity and the role of lived experience in research with @sandrograca.bsky.social at the 5th Annual Accepted Symposium at @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk! 📸 bylaurasmith.com

This paper introduces an important evolution of conversational diagnostic AI: a multimodal system able to integrate clinical dialogue with visual and documentary information, including skin images, ECGs, and clinical documents. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #ArtificialIntelligence

Advancing conversational diagnostic AI with multimodal reasoning - Nature Medicine

Improvements in the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer, a large language model designed for diagnostic dialogue, enable the model to request, interpret and reason about multimodal medical data.

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My colleague Prof. Judy Schlaeger (Uni of Illinois) & her team have just completed the world's first double-blind acupuncture RCT — finding that real acupuncture provides pain relief lasting up to 12 weeks, compared to just 4 weeks for sham acupuncture. 📖 www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

Scientists are finally decoding how acupuncture eases pain

Your body has a built-in painkiller system. Acupuncture may switch it on.

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After travelling to Prague 🇨🇿 for the @aepcossociety.bsky.social Update Meeting and the #pcosnamechange announcement at #ece2026, it’s now time to get back to “research mode” 🤓 Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome #PMOS remains my research focus at @wlvuni.bsky.social and @uhcw-nhs.bsky.social

Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) is the new name for the condition previously known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which impacts 1 in 8, or more than 170 million women worldwide. youtu.be/bZbqRKkaVGU?... #pcosnamechange @mchrimonash.bsky.social @veritypcos.bsky.social

PCOS Has a New Name

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🎤 The name will be announced May 12th at #ECE2026 in Prague 🇨🇿 #PCOS #PCOSnewname @aepcossociety.bsky.social @veritypcos.bsky.social

Androgen Excess and PCOS Society@aepcossociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 The name of PCOS is changing. 🤝 The new name was decided after survey answers from 22,000 individuals including patients, their family members, and health professionals. 56 organizations (societies, patient organizations) were involved. The name will be revealed May 12 at #ECE2026 in Prague 🇨🇿

Prague 🇨🇿 🤩 @aepcossociety.bsky.social Update Meeting Disseminating PCOS info with/from clinicians & researchers - and collaborating with patient support groups! Thanks @veritypcos.bsky.social 👉 and @wlvuni.bsky.social @uhcw-nhs.bsky.social for supporting my research @livingwellwithpcos.bsky.social

📄 SESSION 3 Co-Chairs:
Nathalie di Clemente @sandrograca.bsky.social 🎤 Farheen Shaikh Zydus Therapeutics Inc 🇺🇸 “Saroglitazar / PPAR gamma agonist in PCOS treatment”

If you missed our recent webinar on "From Clinic to Evidence: Case Reports and Practice-Based Research" with @sandrograca.bsky.social, you can now access the recording and slides on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/PCKikPY5lu0

...May the 4th be with you! ✨ Are you ready? Slides are ready and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at this @cochranecompmed.bsky.social webinar later today 💪🤩 ✍️ tinyurl.com/CAM-Webinar-1 From Clinic to Evidence: Case Reports and Practice-Based Research

Case reports in #acupuncture & #TCIM can do much more than describe interesting individual cases. Join our upcoming webinar with @sandrograca.bsky.social and learn more about how they can contribute effectively to clinical research and practice. 🖋️ Register lnkd.in/eUedDDR8 Please repost and share!

Great session yesterday 👉 workshop 2 of the series "Cycles of Care: Bridging Medicine, Technology, Sociology, and Intersectional Design in Digital Women’s Health" 📍 UZH Digital Society Initiative ✨ Recruitment of Underrepresented & Vulnerable Participants: Why, What, How? Thank you all 🙏

🤔 Do you know what USD$79 a year can do? 👉 mailchi.mp/evidencebase... It helps funding projects like our newest resource ✨ Biomechanisms of Acupuncture Points ✨ now live on EBA Connect! 🤩 All our work is funded by a small, dedicated group of people who said "yes, I'm in!" Are you in?

📄 doi.org/10.1177/2768... This review spotlights a systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the strength of evidence for acupuncture's effectiveness for 184 conditions, which constitutes the most comprehensive overview of acupuncture clinical research to date. @saracuresearch.bsky.social

A Review of Key Research and Engagement in 2025 - John McDonald, Beltrán Carrillo, Judith Schlaeger, Sandro Graca, 2026

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🚨 Early-bird registration ends soon! AE-PCOS 2026 Update Meeting Topic: “New therapeutic approaches in #PCOS” 📍 Prague Congress Centre 🇨🇿 #ECE2026 @esendocrinology.bsky.social 🗓️ May 9, 2026 Register now and read the preliminary program on our website: ae-society.org/meetings/

A reciprocal model-exchange between researchers in Ireland & Australia to test GDM risk models shows that while this method protects privacy, prediction accuracy varies by ethnicity, prior GDM history, and number of pregnancies, highlighting the need for local fine-tuning. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Deep-learning models forecast a continued rise in PCOS burden through 2040 doi.org/10.1016/j.is... 👉 Findings characterize the evolving global landscape of #PCOS, providing evidence to support targeted public health surveillance and prevention strategies for adolescent and young adult populations.

🤪😂 7 Onwards and upwards, I guess! 🤩✨ 💪 @livingwellwithpcos.bsky.social | @wlvuni.bsky.social

We are excited to invite all AE-PCOS EC-SIG members to our next MTP session - with Prof. Michael O'Reilly. 🗓️ April 23, 2026 ⏰ 10:30am – 11:30am EDT (Zoom link sent to EC-SIG members, please check your email) 👉 Hear about Prof. O'Reilly's career; 👉 Ask your questions directly; 👉 Network with peers.

New digital health app led by Professor Rashina Hoda (Monash Faculty of IT) strengthens telehealth by turning complex advice into real-time written summaries. Developed with DHCRC, Healthdirect Australia, Dept of Health Victoria, Monash Health & University of Melbourne. Read:

“By designing a model specifically for women and grounding it in trusted clinical science and real-world biometric data, we’re setting the standard (…), pairing rigorous science with the lived, longitudinal data that makes @ouraring.bsky.social uniquely powerful.” ouraring.com/blog/womens-...

Introducing Our First Proprietary AI Model to Deliver Personalized, Clinically Grounded Women’s Health Guidance

The model, available for testing in Oura Labs, enhances Oura Advisor with clinician-curated knowledge tailored to support women.

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doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Results show that LLMs still absorb harmful medical fabrications, especially when phrased in authoritative clinical prose, yet, counter-intuitively, become less vulnerable when the same claims are wrapped in most logical fallacy styles.

Living Well with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome at @wlvuni.bsky.social is led by Dr Chris Kite & @sandrograca.bsky.social. www.wlv.ac.uk/research/res... #PCOS This research cluster has adopted a life course approach to the promotion of healthy lifestyles and prevention of ill health & chronic disease.

Living Well with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome #PCOS - part of the “Living Well Across the Life Course” research cluster at @wlvuni.bsky.social, led by Dr Chris Kite: www.wlv.ac.uk/research/res... Currently, it encompasses projects with children & young people, reproductive-aged women, and older adults

Exercise adherence associated w/ participants' characteristics as well as the trial's primary outcome dx.doi.org/10.4310/SII.... Findings also pointed to a broader focus beyond weight-loss treatment, suggesting that maintaining a high level of exercise adherence may be the key to healthy live births

In this study, patients and health care professionals highlighted the need for a digital health app to: - improve patient–health care professional communication, - digitalise supportive care screening & processes, and - support patient self-efficacy. 🔗 doi.org/10.2196/73829 OncoSupport+

How is IoT technology (apps, wearables, social media, websites, machine learning and phone-based tools) used in PCOS care? doi.org/10.3390/heal... We identify promising roles in tracking, education and peer support, alongside important concerns around evidence, quality, access and misinformation.