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Tracy Bale is an American neuroscientist and molecular biologist. She is the Anschutz Foundation Endowed Chair in Women’s Integrated Mental and Physical Health Research at the Ludeman Center, Director of InterGenerational Stress and Health, and Director of Sex Differences Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. [1]
Mass General Brigham (MGB) (formerly Partners HealthCare) is a not-for-profit, [5] integrated health care system [6] that engages in medical research, [7] teaching, [8] and patient care. It is the largest hospital-based research enterprise in the United States, with annual funding of more than $2 billion. [ 9 ]
Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is a non-profit integrated health system based in Massachusetts, with locations in New Hampshire. [3] Formed through the 2019 merger of two large Massachusetts health systems led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, it is the largest health system in Massachusetts by count of hospitals, with 10 acute-care hospitals in the ...
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was a series of clinical studies initiated by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1991, to address major health issues causing morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal women. It consisted of three clinical trials (CT) and an observational study (OS).
Effectively managing hot flashes, most often through hormone therapy, may have long-term health benefits, too, Dr. Lauren Streicher, medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual ...
The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health within the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was established in 2007 to promote research specific to women's health, to provide advanced sex and gender specific education to health care professionals, and to enrich the lives of women and girls through community programs and cancer prevention.
The women's health movement grew out of social movements of the 1960s, including the New Left, the Civil Rights Movement, and dissatisfaction with the delivery of women's health care. Members of the women's health movement saw health care as a highly politicized issue and wanted to challenge the racism, classism, and sexism they saw in ...
The women's health movement has origins in multiple movements within the United States: the popular health movement of the 1830s and 1840s, the struggle for women/midwives to practice medicine or enter medical schools in the late 1800s and early 1900s, black women's clubs that worked to improve access to healthcare, and various social movements ...