A soon-to-be-released documentary film aims to change the conversation around hemophilia, a condition in which many female ...

In a country where women were essentially left out of major health research and clinical trials until the 1990s, we can’t afford to widen the women’s health research gap any further.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

A 30-year study of over 160,000 women that has led to discoveries in women's health on everything from cancer and hormone therapy to chronic disease, aging and osteoporosis will continue ...

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 ...

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 initiative has secured funding from federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department, to augment research on understudied areas of women's health.