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Until very recently, women’s health was indeed a no-man’s-land. The absence of women as subjects in most medical studies and the lack of attention to gender differences severely limited knowledge of women’s health and the manifestation of diseases and responses to treatment. The Women’s Health Program was organized in 1996 to bring Yale’s talent and expertise to bear on the challenge of finding new models for organizing woman’s care, conducting medical research that factors in gender, and training students and residents to consider gender in appropriate and useful ways. In 1998, the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation made a five-year, $6.5 million grant to Yale to create a premier program of interdisciplinary research on women’s health. The Ethel F. Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Program at Yale brings together researchers from a wide range of scientific fields, each with a different perspective on how gender may factor into disease processes and health. Topics under investigation range from the genetics of breast cancer to the timing of surgery in relation to menstrual cycles, from patterns of domestic violence to the role of estrogen in memory after menopause. Yale’s powerful technological and intellectual resources allow research to proceed at many levels, from basic molecular biology to practical, clinical studies. “We don’t want people to think that women’s health must be a separate area of research,” says Carolyn Mazure, Ph.D., who directs the Donaghue Program. “Instead, the hope is that more and more investigators will think about gender in the research they are actively pursuing, and think more about research collaborations to answer relevant questions.” |
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