Anyone who has ever taken a CPR course is likely to have practised on a male manikin. A 2024 study found that very few models offered a breast overlay. But in a real-life emergency, many first responders will be treating women.
The mismatch raises a bigger question about whose bodies healthcare is designed around. Oxford researchers Brittany Vining and Suzannah Williams explain how medicine’s long reliance on male bodies has left gaps in our understanding of women’s health, and why AI trained on that evidence risks carrying old assumptions into new technology.
Elsewhere, Canada’s search for new alliances in the face of Donald Trump’s overreach could draw it closer to the EU. But, as political science lecturer Stewart Prest argues, deeper European ties would bring difficult decisions about sharing power with Brussels and managing relations with its American neighbour, still its biggest trading partner.
Back in Westminster, could Labour change the voting system that handed it a landslide? Two University of Exeter politics researchers suggest that support for electoral reform and the party’s uncertain political prospects could provide an incentive – although agreeing on what should replace first past the post presents a challenge of its own.
