Corrections
This page logs substantive corrections to articles on Women's Bioethics: wrong figures, outdated rules presented as current, claims that did not hold up, and factual errors readers or editors caught after publication. Typo fixes and wording polish are not logged; changes to facts are.
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Email info@womensbioethics.org with a link to the article and a note on what is wrong. You do not need to prove the error; pointing at it is enough. We verify against primary sources, correct the article, and record the change here. Our sourcing rules are described in the editorial policy.
Correction log
September 9, 2026: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause. An earlier version ended with a blanket claim that hormone therapy protects "your heart, your bones, and your brain" and framed early initiation as cardiovascular protection. The article now separates symptom treatment and bone benefit from chronic disease prevention, and cites the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation against systemic hormone therapy for the primary prevention of chronic conditions in asymptomatic postmenopausal people.
September 9, 2026: The rise of theranostics. An earlier version said targeted radioligand treatment "bypasses" healthy organs such as the kidneys and salivary glands. That was wrong: those organs take up the drug and receive a radiation dose, which is why dry mouth is a known side effect and kidney function is monitored during treatment. Corrected against National Cancer Institute and FDA information.
September 9, 2026: AI diagnosis tools in modern healthcare. An earlier version stated that encryption of health data "is not optional" under federal law. Under the HIPAA Security Rule, encryption is an addressable implementation specification: a provider must assess whether it is reasonable and appropriate, implement it when it is, and document an equivalent alternative when it is not. The passage now describes this accurately.
September 9, 2026: Recession-proofing your wallet. An earlier version said an unpaid 0% balance transfer ends with "all the back interest" being charged. That conflated two different products: a standard 0% intro APR offer does not charge interest retroactively, while deferred interest promotions do. Corrected per the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau explainer, with transfer fees and post-promotion rates noted.
September 9, 2026: The boring green home improvements that actually pay you back. An earlier version presented a two to three year payback for air sealing and insulation as a general promise and extrapolated a single January utility bill across 30 years. The payback is now stated as conditional on climate, energy prices, and the condition of the house, and the long-term cost comparison shows its assumptions.
September 9, 2026: Why your ovaries are now proprietary corporate data. The people in this essay are now explicitly identified as illustrative composites rather than interviews, and a passage claiming that HIPAA coverage turns on a device being classed as consumer electronics was corrected: coverage follows the entity holding the data and its healthcare relationships, not the gadget.
September 9, 2026. A site wide editorial review corrected sourcing defects across the article library rather than one article at a time: statistics that could not be verified at their claimed source were rewritten as honest generalities or removed, misattributed studies were re-attributed or hedged, reference lists that named organizations without links were removed or replaced with verified links, and one article that had its full text duplicated was fixed. The scope of that review is summarized on the changelog.
No individual reader reported corrections have been logged since this page was created. When one is, it will appear here with the date, the article, and what changed.