Language for gender and sex; yoga vs. exercise benefits; dangerously high temperatures – Morning Medical Update

How to say it for gender, sex and more

The AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors sets standards and formats broadly reproducible and recognizable for conveying information about medical research and citing clinical studies. The editors are seeking comments on the new “Draft Guidance on Reporting Gender, Sex, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Age in Medical and Scientific Publication – Call for Review and Comment.” Responses are due by Sept. 30. Read the notice here, a link to the comment form is here, and the draft guidelines are here.

Yoga vs. exercise for women

For year, pelvic floor yoga has been recommended for women in middle age and older dealing with urinary incontinence. How well does that actually work? Maybe not as well as it is perceived, compared with general physician conditioning. A researcher said that “benefits of pelvic yoga benefits of pelvic yoga for women with urinary incontinence may be shared with more general low-impact muscle conditioning exercise." Read the study here and a report on it here.

Heat danger

Parts of the United States this week and this summer have dealt with potentially dangerous temperatures outdoors. A new research letter quantified the heat deaths across the nation from 1999 to 2023 – and the news isn’t good, especially in the last seven years. Researchers said the trend is likely to continue as temperatures rise due to climate change.