A New Vision for Women's Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health

by Health and Medicine Division

Women make up over half of the U.S. population, yet research on women's health conditions, including those that are female specific such as fibroids, more common among women such as anxiety, or affect women differently such cardiovascular disease, is severely lacking. Medical advances for women have lagged, in part due to a lack of understanding of basic sex-based differences in physiology. To address this, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309731399
• ISBN13: 9780309731393
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 512 Pages