A soon-to-be-released documentary film aims to change the conversation around hemophilia, a condition in which many female ...

About 42,000 women ages 78 to 108 remain active participants in the Women’s Health Initiative. Frazao Studio Latino/E+ via Getty Images ...

Rosen is the executive director of the Katz Institute for Women's Health at Northwell Health in New York and recently began ...

A campaign backed by Kyowa Kirin, Amgen and Sanofi is calling on prominent organizations with medical websites to bring their ...

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding Future of landmark project, which enrolled 160,000 women and covered range of conditions, is in doubt Adobe ...

A 30-year study of over 160,000 women that has led to discoveries in women's health on everything from cancer and hormone therapy to chronic disease, aging and osteoporosis will continue ...

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.

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 enrolled in the WHI when the study launched in 1992 are now between 75 and 109 years old. Among them are 574 centenarians, including Veronda, and 12,646 women in their 90s.

The landmark study, which enrolled more than 160,000 participants and has informed public health guidelines for women over 50, is still making tremendous contributions to women’s health.