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Monday, November 04, 2002He also points out a fact that escaped me when I first read about this. The doctor involved is a part of the Women’s Health Initiative, the research project at the NIH that’s responsible for the recent hormone replacement therapy storm of controversy. (They were a little hysterical themselves in their reaction to the small risk of heart disease and strokes in women taking estrogen. We’ll be living with the results of their hysteria for a long time to come.) She indulges in a little more hysteria when she calls women’s health “historically underserved.” This is a myth that deserves to be put to rest. With the exception of certain fundamentalist regimes who regard women as little more than chattle, women’s health has never been underserved. Textbooks of obstetrics were some of the first ever written. Some of the earliest medicines were designed with the intent to relieve menstrual ills, and to prevent conception. Doctors took specialized training in obstetrics and gynecology long before they did in urology. And today, the federal government spends far more to research women-specific diseases than they do to research male-specific diseases. They also spend more in outreach and education for women on health issues. We are and ever have been far from neglected. posted by Sydney on 11/04/2002 07:58:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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