12th February marks a day of Sexual and Reproductive awareness worldwide. There is immense scope for work among health professionals in this area, particularly taking into account communities that bear the brunt of poor delivery such as transgenders and young adolescents in third world countries. A number of systematic reviews have been made available in PubMed to help you initiate better healthcare policies, and you can access them here. https://tinyurl.com/qmedsm210212

The Female Physician Compensation Report released by Medscape reports a difference of thirty two percent between male and female health professionals, equally equipped and in the same line of work. As in many domains, in healthcare too we observe underrepresentation and gaps in wages on the basis of gender. 11th February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To increase your awareness about such discrepancies and your own workplace rights, check out some PubMed references on this topic - brought to you by QMed

4th February-World Cancer Day is an initiative of Union for International Cancer Control, a major torchbearer working towards initiatives to integrate cancer control into the world's health and development agenda. At the crux of this is the faith that diagnosis, treatment, and care should be available for all, irrespective of their bearings. On this day, we at QMed celebrate this initiative by bringing your attention, as health workers, to a range of articles on the topic - available in PubMed