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. It is the ...

The average age of the remaining 42,000 women in the Women’s Health Initiative is 87 years. Experts say new longitudinal studies are needed.

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's Health Initiative — which houses its data center at Fred Hutch — is the largest women’s health study ever conducted on the planet, recruiting more than 161,000 women ages 50 to 79 and ...

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 ...

Women’s Health Initiative — and its 42,000 volunteers — still in limbo Nathan Howard/Getty Images By Karen Pennar May 5, 2025 Night News Editor ...

The headlines around coverage of a paper published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) about the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone trials didn’t quite capture ...

The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was designed to define the risks and benefits of interventions, notably hormone therapy, to potentially prevent heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and ...