Sex-specific differences exist and yet women are often underrepresented in clinical trials in acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

The EU-funded Gender, Diversity and Inclusion–Acute Coronary Syndromes (GEDI–ACS) registry is the first, prospective, multicentre, observational, non-randomised, Italian registry designed to evaluate the clinical, imaging, biochemical and molecular profiles of women with ACS.

Preliminary results related to comorbidities, pregnancy, menopause, psychosocial factors and non-obstructive coronary disease highlight the need for more personalised and gender-specific approaches to prevention, treatment and support.

Raising awareness, ensuring timely diagnosis and delivering gender-tailored care is essential to improving outcomes for women with ACS.

In recent years, medical guidelines and national policies have pushed hospitals to offer more palliative care to patients who are seriously ill. This has led to a major rise in palliative care use, especially among people treated in ICUs. Although past research suggested that palliative care can help patients transition to hospice, the actual trends in hospice use after critical illness have not been described.

In a new study from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, researchers

have found that more older adults in the U.S. are being discharged to hospice after an ICU stay than in the past, and this increase happened even as overall short-term death rates stayed stable. This research is the first to quantify hospice use after ICU stays on a national scale, and suggests a real shift in how end-of-life care is delivered to the seriously ill.

Certain neighborhood characteristics, including higher poverty, more uninsured residents, and lower educational attainment, may lead to an increase in COPD-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations, according to a new study in the January 2026 issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.