Women's Health Activists Note Progress But Still See Problems

SIDEBAR : Examples of Women's Health Research Goals Advocates and scientists are optimistic as they update and expand their agenda to include varied research priorities. Today's newspapers are replete with reports detailing advances in women's health: New breast cancer-causing genes are reported with increasing regularity, as are discoveries of connections between hormones or genetics and disease. In the midst of this progress, advocates for research on women's health-scientists, clinicians, p

Karen Young Kreeger

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SIDEBAR : Examples of Women's Health Research Goals

Over the last 10 years, investigators have accumulated much knowledge. But with the new understandings, new questions have been raised, and new implications for health have been uncovered. With this in mind, the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) has started a series of regional planning meetings to update and revise its national agenda. These sessions build on an agenda-setting meeting that ORWH held in 1991 in Hunt Valley, Md.

The first of the recent regional planning meetings took place in September in Philadelphia. At that meeting, biomedical researchers, as well as representatives of scientific, professional, and women's health organizations from around the United States, met to identify informational gaps and make recommendations for redefining the field.

BUDGET UPTREND: ORWH director Vivian Pinn is heartened by the increase in funding for her office. "I was excited to ...

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