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CONGRATULATIONS SWHR !! Clinical Trials Reporting by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Signed into Law

SOURCE:  Society for Women's Health Research

DATE:  July 10, 2012

EXCERPT: "President Obama signed into law the bipartisan Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) on July 9. This Act reauthorizes FDA’s user fee program, which is critical to the Agency’s funding, and also includes a provision that has been long sought by the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR), the American Heart Association (AHA) and Women Heart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease (WomenHeart) that will require FDA to provide a special report and accounting of trials by sex, race, and ethnicity."  more

Clinical Research Doesn't Do Enough To Study Sex And Gender Differences

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  December 10, 2010

EXCERPT: "Potential gender differences in clinical management are under-researched. A systematic analysis of the incorporation of sex and gender into research design, published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has found that, although there has been a progressive improvement since the 90s, there exists a striking under-representation of research about gender differences in patient management."   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Oertelt-Prigione S, Parol R, Krohn S, Preissner R, Regitz-Zagrosek V. Analysis of sex and gender-specific research eveals a common increase in publications and marked differences between disciplines. BMC Med. 2010 Nov 10;8:70.

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SWHR comments on the importance of research translation and greater collaboration of scientists within NIH and FDA

SOURCE: Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR)

DATE:  May 26, 2010

EXCERPT: "The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the importance of research translation and the unique juncture we face in bringing about greater collaboration of scientists within the NIH and FDA. SWHR believes that we are long past due for the type of alliance being discussed today; a partnership poised to increase the quality of research and results while streamlining the approval process that most would agree today is in need of improvement."   complete communication

20 Years Advancing a New Science: Sex Based Biology and Women's Health

20 Years Advancing a New Science: Sex Based Biology and Women's Health.  Video chronicling SWHR's scientific achievements over the past 20 years

Society for Women's Health Research Celebrates 20 years !  : )

History

See also Books -- Gender Medicine and Government docs categories

Selected Works

A century of women’s health. (2002). From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health Web site: http://www.4woman.gov/timecapsule/century/index.htm.

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Brown, Zora, and Kyle, Penelope Ward. Consumer-Oriented Care. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993.3(2):63-70.

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Donchin, Anne. Feminist Bioethics. In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). (Originaly published July 19, 2004)
 

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Green, Monica Helen. 2008.  Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN10: 0199211493; ISBN13: 9780199211494.   Publisher Book Info    WorldCat.org 

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Goertzen, Irma & Suzanne Stone. The Society for Women's Health Research: Using Evidence-Based Policy to Improve Health. In:  Mason, Diana J., et al. Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 6th ed. St. Louis: Elsevier/Saunders, 2012. pp. 336-339.  ISBN: 978-1437714166. Honors.   Publisher Book Info.  WorldCat.org.

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Johnson, K, and Hoffman, E. Women's Health:Designing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Specialty. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993.3(2):1115-120.

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Kline, Wendy. Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave.  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.  ISBN: 9780226443089.     Publisher info.     WorldCat.org.

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LaRosa, J.H., et al. Women's Health Research. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993.3(2):8692.

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Looker, Patty. Women's Health Centers: History and Evolution. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993.3(2):95-100.

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New View of Heart Disease in Women.  Harvard Women's Health Watch. Feb. 2007.

The "Coronary Artery Surgery Study" by the National Institutes of Health in the 1970s was the "first major heart study to include women."  Provides history of women being included in research about heart disease, which led to findings about how women can experience heart disease, and treatment for heart disease, differently than men.

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Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS). History of Our Bodies Ourselves and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. From http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/about/history.asp/.

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Petrie MC, Dawson NF, Murdoch DR, Davie AP, McMurray JJ.Failure of women's hearts. Circulation. 1999 May 4;99(17):2334-41. Review. No abstract available. [ landmark review of heart failure in women, done 10 years ago, revealed a striking lack of sex-specific data on all aspects of the condition]

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Schaps, M.J., et al.  Women-Centered Care: Implemeting a Philosophy. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993.3(2):52-54.

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Schroeder, Patricia (Representative, United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC). Legislation to Further Women's Health Research. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993. 3(2):93-94.

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Simon, V. R., et al.; The Society for Women's Health Research. National Institutes of Health:  Intramural and extramural support for research on sex differences, 2000-2003. Scientific Report Series: Understanding the biology of sex differences. Washington, DC: Society for Women's Health Research, 2005. 11 p.  pdf 

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Society for Women's Health Research Advocacy Accomplishments.  

The Society has been instrumental in large scale advocacy for getting women included in biomedical research and the use of related research findings translated into practice.

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V&A, The Victoria and Albert Museum. Votes for women and chastity for men: Gender, health, medicine and sexuality in Victorian England. From http://www.fathom.com/course/10701039/.

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Women’s Health Research: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise.  September 23, 2010.  Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences.   A video of the public briefing will be available from the National Academies Press at http://national-academies.org/PODCAST.

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Historical Documents and References

National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research. NIH GUIDELINES ON THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES AS SUBJECTS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH - Updated August 1, 2000. [Follow links to updates].

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National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research. NIH POLICY AND GUIDELINES ON THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES AS SUBJECTS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH - Amended October 2001. [Follow links to updates].

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Women's Health Overview

Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. Women's Health Issues. Summer 1993. 3(2):49-124. Conference papers. Overview of issues, includes some historical information.

Gender-based Analysis: Will it make things better for women?

SOURCE: Canadian Women's Health Network Magazine

DATE:  Fall 1999, Volume 2, Number 4

EXCERPT:  "Call it gender main-streaming, gender lens, or gender-based analysis, the tool is fairly new to Canada and it is not yet widely used. Will it be used to justify decisions that have already been made, or will it make things better for women?"  more