About 42,000 women ages 78 to 108 remain active participants in the Women’s Health Initiative. Frazao Studio Latino/E+ via Getty Images ...

To try to help correct this imbalance, in 1991 the National Institutes of Health launched a massive, long-term study called the Women's Health Initiative, which is still running today.

The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding Future of landmark project, which enrolled 160,000 women and covered range of conditions, is in doubt Adobe ...

The WHI is a decadeslong research effort on women's health. In this July 21, 2007, file photo, the US Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, D.C. Saul Loeb/AFP ...

A campaign backed by Kyowa Kirin, Amgen and Sanofi is calling on prominent organizations with medical websites to bring their ...

The women enrolled in the WHI when the study launched in 1992 are now between 75 and 109 years old. Among them are 574 centenarians, including Veronda, and 12,646 women in their 90s.

The Conversation — Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet before the 1990s, they were largely excluded from health and medical research studies. To try to help correct this imbalance ...

From Specialized Health Care to Caregiving and Beyond Women require specialized care for pregnancy, reproductive health and menopause. UB r esearchers have long collaborated with the National ...

The landmark study, which enrolled more than 160,000 participants and has informed public health guidelines for women over 50, is still making tremendous contributions to women’s health.