What
Changing the Face of Medicine
When
02/12/2009 through 03/27/09
Where
Arizona Health Sciences Library
Cost
free
http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/ab
out/exhibits/changingthefaceofmedicine
Jean Spinelli
AHSC Office of Public Affairs
jspinell@email.arizona.edu
(520) 626-2531
February 11, 2009
MEDICAL WRITERS/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS NOTE: The UA College of Medicine has many women physicians and researchers available to discuss women’s health issues, including aging, arthritis, cancer, heart disease and others; to make arrangements, please contact Jean Spinelli, AHSC Office of Public Affairs, (520) 626-7301.
“It is clear that all of us in the scientific community have a lot of breaking to do -- especially old rules, self-defeating habits, and glass ceilings,” said Bernadine Healy, MD, former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the March 13, 1992 issue of Science magazine.
The difficulties and triumphs of American women physicians who have done some of that breaking in the medical profession are the focus of “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” an interactive, multi-media exhibition at the Arizona Health Sciences Library, Thursday, Feb. 12, through Friday, March 27.
Based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Md., from 2003-2005, “Changing the Face of Medicine” was created by the Exhibition Program of the NLM’s History of Medicine Division in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by the NLM, the American Library Association and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The American Medical Women’s Association provided additional support. The Arizona Health Sciences Library is one of only 61 libraries in the United States chosen to host the exhibit on its five-year national tour that will end in 2010.
Among the stories of American women physicians from the mid-19th century to the present are those of Arizona’s 11 Local Legends (women physicians recognized by the American Medical Women’s Association for their demonstrated commitment, originality, innovation and creativity in the field of medicine), as well as UA College of Medicine faculty and graduates, a UA graduate and other women physicians with ties to Arizona. (See following list.)
Visitors can access the NLM’s Local Legends Web site, www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends, which spotlights Local Legends from every state, and also add stories about women physicians they know to the “Share Your Story” section of the exhibition Web site, www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine, on two interactive kiosks. The exhibition Web site also offers educational and professional resources for those considering medicine as a career and lesson plans for classroom activities for grades K-12.
Women Physician Memorabilia Collection
Unique to the Tucson exhibit is a collection of women physician memorabilia belonging to Marlys Witte, MD, professor in the Department of Surgery at the UA College of Medicine and a faculty member since 1969. The collection includes figurines and statues from serious to humorous, in media ranging from fine porcelain to plastic and wood to fabric, as well as a 4-foot-tall soft-sculpture modeled after Dr. Witte, a ceramic doctor mug with pink high-heeled shoes and a vintage 1970s comic book published by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare for young girls titled “Have You Considered a Health Career?”
Native American Doctors and Healers: Photographic Portraits by Michael Stoklos 
Also unique to the Tucson exhibit is a collection of black and white photographic portraits of Native American doctors and healers, which will be on display through April. Photographer Michael Stoklos began taking the series in 2002 when he attended an American Association of Indian Physicians convention in Anchorage, Alaska, with a group of participants from the UA College of Medicine. Most of the subjects wear important Native heirlooms or traditional tribal attire, some hold prayer fans or other objects that have special meaning, a few are group portraits capturing important family relationships. The portraits’ simplicity allows the subjects to make statements about their identity, personality and culture, their professional achievements and heritage. Stoklos, whose father was a rural Wisconsin doctor and mother a nurse, and his aunt, Mary Stoklos, established the Stoklos Native American Health Education Fund at the UA to provide support and encouragement to American Indian medical students.
The AHS Library is located at the Arizona Health Sciences Center campus, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson. Library hours for the public are 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., seven days a week. Parking is available in the University Medical Center Visitor/Patient Parking Garage, Monday-Friday, 6 a.m.-9 p.m., $1.50 per hour, $9 maximum; Saturday and Sunday, free. Free parking also is available in UA Zone Lots and meters after 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday.
For more information about “Changing the Face of Medicine,” call the AHS Library, (520) 626-6121, or visit the Web site, www.ahsl.arizona.edu/about/exhibits/changingthefaceofmedicine.
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Arizona Health Sciences Center’s 11 Local Legends
A companion project to the “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit, called Local Legends, was developed in partnership with the American Medical Women’s Association to serve as a national educational outreach program, highlighting women physicians throughout America who have made a positive, enduring contribution to the health care of their communities. Each Local Legend was nominated by her Congressional representative and then selected by a panel of nationally known women physicians, representing a diverse group of specialties.
Eleven women physicians with the Arizona Health Sciences Center -- including the UA Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy and the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health -- are among those selected nationally as Local Legends: 
Tamsen Bassford, MD, chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UA College of Medicine; associate professor, clinical family medicine and clinical obstetrics and gynecology, UA College of Medicine; director, Sonoran University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities; member, Arizona Cancer Center.
Dr. Bassford wanted to be a doctor since she was in second grade, when the traditional family doctor had an office just down the street and provided medical care for families in the neighborhood. An award-winning family physician and noted researcher in women’s health, she was principal investigator for the Arizona site of the Women’s Health Initiative (a landmark national study of preventive intervention in postmenopausal women) and in 1993 was appointed head of the UA College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine, the first women department head in the College. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Bassford_Tammie.html.
Leslie Boyer, MD, associate professor, clinical pediatrics and clinical pathology, UA College of Medicine; founding director, VIPER (Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology, and Emergency Response) Institute, UA College of Medicine; medical director, Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, UA College of Pharmacy; member, BIO5 Institute.
Growing up in Tucson and the Sonoran Desert, Dr. Boyer loved desert creatures -- and understood the suffering and disability that can come from snake, spider, scorpion and other bites and stings. A UA graduate, she received her medical degree from Harvard University and today is internationally recognized for her contributions to antivenom research in a multifaceted career, which includes clinical studies of antivenoms for the treatment of scorpion stings and snake bites and helping to establish the first poison center system in a former Soviet state, Kazakhstan. Her work has been presented on The Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, National Geographic and National Public Radio. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Boyer_Leslie.html. 
Mindy Fain, MD, co-director, Arizona Center on Aging; head, Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, UA College of Medicine; director, Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics; director, Arizona Geriatric Education Center; medical director, Home-Based Primary Care Program and the Telehealth Program, Southern Arizona VA Health Care System; associate professor, clinical medicine, UA College of Medicine.
Dr. Fain’s pursuit of a medical career was influenced by her father -- a first generation immigrant from Latvia with seven brothers and sisters -- who was a strong believer in social justice and stressed the importance of education and fairness for all. Medicine appealed to her as a way of serving the impoverished and disenfranchised. Today, she is recognized nationally for her contributions in education, clinical care and program development. She played an important role in securing a prestigious $1.9 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics in 2006 at the UA College of Medicine. This nationally recognized program provides specialized geriatrics education throughout the state for medical students, residents, faculty and community physicians, to improve care for the increasing number of elderly patients in Arizona and the U.S. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Fain_Mindy.html. 
Gillian Hamilton, PhD, MD, clinical assistant professor, family and community medicine, The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University; medical director, Hospice of the Valley, Phoenix; graduate, UA College of Medicine, Class of 1981.
As a young assistant professor of psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York, Dr. Hamilton often spent her free time volunteering to help the elderly who lived alone. Her experience inspired her to become a physician and dedicate her life to geriatrics and hospice care, to help those near the end of life find comfort and peace. She is founder and program director of COMMUNITY, an intergenerational friendship program between young people and nursing home residents; co-director of Health Care Decisions, a Medicare-coordinated demonstration project at Hospice of the Valley; medical director for the Providing Palliative Care to Person With Dementia Project; and vice president for educational programming at Hospice of the Valley, directing programs to teach physicians in training, hospitalists, social workers, nurses and chaplains about palliative care. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Hamilton_Gillian.html. 
Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, associate dean, Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs, UA College of Medicine; medical director, Arizona Telemedicine Program and Women’s Health Initiative; associate professor, clinical medicine, Department of Hematology and Oncology, and associate professor, pathology, UA College of Medicine; associate professor, public health, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; member, Arizona Cancer Center, BIO5 Institute, UA Hispanic Center of Excellence and UA National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.
Among residents along Arizona’s border with Mexico, Dr. Lopez is known as the “doctor to see” when suffering from cancer. This reputation results from her long-standing commitment to reduce the disparities faced by underserved populations in accessing quality health care services. This dedication has guided her medical career as a clinician, researcher and educator. After completing a residency and fellowship in medicine, a clinical fellowship in oncology, and a research fellowship (National Cancer Institute) in cancer prevention and etiology at the UA College of Medicine, she received a master’s in public health from the Arizona Graduate Program in Public Health (pre-cursor to the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health). As founding medical director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program, Dr. Lopez pioneered the use of technology to deliver health care to the citizens of Arizona via teleconsultations, which virtually bring patients to specialists hundreds of miles away and rural health care providers to continuing education conferences -- all without ever leaving their communities. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Lopez_Maria.html. 
Joy Mockbee, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor, family and community medicine, UA College of Medicine; associate medical director, family medicine, El Rio Health Center, Tucson; graduate, UA College of Medicine, Class of 1996.
While a medical student at the UA College of Medicine, Dr. Mockbee worked in a free clinic for refugees from Central America, where she determined to help the underserved. Today, she continues that commitment as associate medical director of family medicine at the El Rio Health Center in Tucson. She also volunteers with the UA College of Medicine’s Commitment to Underserved People (CUP) program, which provides medical students with opportunities to work with medically underserved populations and develop leadership skills. She has provided medical services and helped train medical providers in El Salvador and Chiapas, Mexico, as a volunteer with Doctors for Global Health, a private, nonprofit organization that promotes health and human rights throughout the world, and she was an active board member with the organization from 2000-2005. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Mockbee_Joy.html. 
Jessica Moreno, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UA College of Medicine.
From humble beginnings in Sinaloa, Mexico, Dr. Moreno has achieved remarkable things in her medical career. She was the first in her family to attend college and later medical school. Her work in community outreach programs in Arizona, and her efforts in training local healthcare providers in Latin America, is widely respected. She is active in research on breast and cervical cancer screening along the U.S. and Mexico border as well as screening services for women in rural Yuma County, Ariz. Bilingual, and fluent in both written and spoken Spanish, she has been able to reach and teach within immigrant populations. She is devoted to health education and teaching the next generation, to serving the underprivileged and helping medical students understand the plight of the underserved. She is a fierce advocate for women patients, notably at St. Elizabeth’s Health Center in Tucson, and has been recognized by University Medical Center with a PRIDE Award. Yet, she considers her two children to be her greatest accomplishment. For more of her story, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Moreno_Jessica.html.
Myra Muramoto, MD, MPH, associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UA College of Medicine; associate professor, public health, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; graduate, UA College of Medicine, Class of 1985.
Her dream of becoming an artist changed to one of becoming a doctor when during her sophomore year of high school her mother became ill with diabetes. Today, Dr. Muramoto is helping to change the face of medicine through research (in the field of substance abuse, particularly tobacco cessation), medical education and patient care as a family physician caring for low-income, medically underserved patients. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Muramoto_Myra.html.
Kathryn Reed, MD, professor and head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UA College of Medicine; director, Section of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, UA College of Medicine; graduate, UA College of Medicine, Class of 1977.
When she arrived in New York City with a degree in philosophy in the early 1970s, Dr. Reed was sure she wanted to change the world but not sure how. Working at a hospital in Harlem, she came to believe that to help people she had to get practical and first make them healthy. So she returned to her native Arizona to pursue a career in medicine, a journey that has brought her academic and medical honors without dampening her commitment to change. She first made an impact as one of the pioneers in maternal-fetal medicine, doing research on fetal cardiac physiology and ultrasound with Doppler which is now widely used in the medical community. A tireless advocate for the advancement of women and minority faculty, she headed the GRACE (Generating Respect for All in a Climate of Academic Excellence) research project that examined the causes of gender disparities in salary, advancement and opportunities for faculty at the UA College of Medicine. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Reed_Kathryn.html. 
Cecilia Rosales, MD, MS, associate professor, public health, Division of Community, Environment and Policy, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
As a child, Dr. Rosales understood that the study of medicine was a means to making a difference in people’s lives, but did not express or share her desire to pursue the field, nor did anyone encourage her. Two years of administering a social service program after receiving her undergraduate degree at the UA gave her the experience, maturity and courage to go to medical school. She has worked more than 20 years in the health arena and more than 15 years in public health, including five years as director of the Office of Border Health, Division of Public Health Services of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Her talent for bringing diverse groups of people together to build consensus and understanding of public health issues led to her appointment in 2006 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush to the United States Section of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission. She currently serves as the principal investigator for Project EXPORT, a National Institutes of Health/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities-funded project that addresses health disparities in two communities in Arizona, focusing on substance abuse and type 2 Diabetes. She also is principal investigator of a farmworker study funded by National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. She currently is a member of a federal workgroup that is developing Healthy People 2020. She previously was involved in numerous programs, including the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) project, the Binational Tuberculosis Health Card, the Healthy Gente/Healthy Border 2010 Initiative, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Diabetes Project. For more of her story, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/locallegends/Biographies/Rosales_Cecilia.html. 
Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH, clinical professor, pediatrics, UA College of Medicine; practicing pediatrician in Tucson; graduate, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 2001.
Since she was six years old, Dr. Shapiro wanted to be a doctor to help heal people. Today, she is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine. A Native New Yorker, she and her physician husband moved in 1986 to Tucson, where she became active in increasing access to health care. As chairperson of the Healthy Arizona Initiative, she was instrumental in the success of Proposition 204, a statewide ballot which successfully increased access to health care for more than 200,000 working poor Arizonans by allocating part of the approximate $100 million the state receives annually from settlement of the nationwide lawsuit against tobacco companies. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Shapiro_Eve.html.
Other UA College of Medicine Faculty and Graduates Featured in the Exhibit
Other UA College of Medicine faculty and graduates also are featured in “Changing the Face of Medicine.” 
Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH, (Rosebud Sioux), assistant professor, UA College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine; director, UA Indians Into Medicine Program (INMED).
As a teenager, Dr. Roubideaux realized she never had seen an American Indian physician and felt that she could do something to help improve healthcare for American Indian communities by becoming a physician. Today, she is recognized for her work combating diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_280.html; for more information about her current work, visit
http://www.fcm.arizona.edu/index.cfm/1,149,317,0,html/Yvette-Roubideaux.
UA College of Medicine graduates featured in the exhibition include Local Legends and faculty members Drs. Hamilton, Mockbee, Muramoto and Reed, as well as two other women physicians practicing in Arizona: 
Bernadette Freeland-Hyde, MD, (Navajo), Class of 1987, is a pediatrician in Tempe, Ariz. She grew up on the Navajo reservation at a time when not many succeeded in college and beyond. After completing her undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, she attended the UA College of Medicine. She married after her first semester of medical school, and had the last of her three children during her pediatric residency. She has served as a staff pediatrician for Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, where she also was a cross-cultural consultant in the center’s Department of Family and Community Medicine Residency Program; as a pediatrician for the Native American Community Health Center in Phoenix; and as a pediatric consultant for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Scottsdale, where she conducted a comprehensive health review assessing child health needs of all the children from birth to age 20. She also has served on the executive board of the Association of American Indian Physicians. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_121.html.
Victoria M. Stevens, MD, (San Carlos Apache), Class of 1976, is an orthopedic surgeon in Globe, Ariz., the same town where she was born. When she was a sophomore in high school in Globe in the late 1960s, Dr. Stevens told one of her teachers that she was planning to pursue a career in psychology. His response was: “Psychiatrists make more money.” As a result, she set her sights on medical school, where she discovered that a career in surgery would be more personally rewarding, and the specialty of orthopedics the most fulfilling. For more of her story, visit www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_310.html.
UA Graduate Also Featured in 'Changing the Face of Medicine'
A UA graduate also is featured in the exhibition: 
Patricia Nez Henderson, MD, MPH, (Navajo), UA Class of 1990, is an assistant professor with the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs at the University of Colorado and vice president of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health in Rapid City, South Dakota. She received the UA Alumni Association's Professional Achievement Award and the UA American Indian Alumni Club's Tanner Award during the Alumni Association's Homecoming festivities in Oct. 2008. The award, named after Clara Lee and John Tanner, is given to a UA American Indian graduate who has demonstrated significant success in their professional career. Dr. Nez Henderson was the first American Indian woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine. She is a tobacco control and prevention researcher and advocate tackling the issue of commercial tobacco among American Indians and Alaska Natives. She works to promote tobacco free/smoke free policies on both the Navajo Reservation and on a national level for American Indians and Alaska Natives. For more of her story, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_147.html.
Other Women Physicians With Ties to UA College of Medicine Featured in 'Changing the Face of Medicine'
Other women physicians featured in the exhibition who have ties to the UA College of Medicine include: 
Patricia StandTal Clarke, MD, a family practitioner in Flagstaff, received her post-medical school training with the UA College of Medicine, completing an internship in obstetrics and gynecology at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and a residency in anesthesiology at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix. She was one of only 13 women physicians – the only one in Arizona – to be featured in “Changing the Face of Medicine: Profiles of Achievement,” an interactive DVD produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions that is presented in one of the exhibit kiosks and also has been distributed to schools and medical school and community libraries throughout the country. Dr. Clarke was interviewed for the DVD at her previous practice in Bisbee, Ariz., where her home doubled as her clinic, like country doctors of bygone days. Part Eastern Band Cherokee-Wolf Clan and an ordained Protestant minister , she treats patients with an integrative medicine approach, combining indigenous traditional and orthodox medicine in her family practice. For more of her story, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_63.html.
Paula Stillman, MD, who taught pediatrics at the UA College of Medicine in the 1970s, during which time she developed a way to evaluate medical students’ clinical competence using “standardized patients” who are taught to role-play a medical story and use a checklist to assess students’ physical exams, diagnosis and information-sharing skills. Today the program, known as Objective Structured Clinical Evaluations (OSCE), continues to be used by the UA College of Medicine and has been adopted by other medical schools throughout the country. The U.S. Medical Licensing Examination now requires an OSCE for all medical school graduates. The program also recently has been adopted by medical schools in China. For more of her story, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_312.html.
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UA College Of Medicine’s Women Students, Faculty and
Health Research
The UA College of Medicine has been at the forefront of women’s medical education, health research and clinical care.
More than half of the College’s classes since 1995 have been comprised of more women than men, plus the Class of 2008 included an equal number of men and women while the Class of 2007 included 61 women and 62 men. The Class of 2009 includes 67 women (58 men), the Class of 2010 includes 57 women (54 men), the Class of 2011 includes 82 women (52 men) and the Class of 2012 includes 92 women (66 men). In contrast, the first graduating class, in 1971, had three women and 27 men.
Women faculty at the UA College of Medicine, including The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University, currently number 332, including 241 full- and part-time salaried faculty members and 91 affiliated faculty.
Advancing women’s health care has been the goal of the College’s Women’s Center of Excellence and the focus of numerous studies, including the Women’s Health Initiative.
Women’s Center of Excellence
The Women’s Center of Excellence (WCOE) at the UA College of Medicine is committed to improving health and promoting wellness for all women, with health care that supports their unique needs in every stage of their lives, based on the most recent scientific evidence, and sensitive to their language, culture, beliefs and lifestyle.
Projects include the Centers for Disease Control REACH Pima Cervical Cancer Prevention Partnership, the National Institutes of Health-funded Arizona Women’s Prevention Initiative and, in collaboration with the Arizona Respiratory Center and UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, a contract for the National Children’s Study.
Collaborations on community-based prevention programs include the Tucson Unified, Sunnyside, Sahuarita and Mammoth school districts, as well as El Rio Community Health Center and St. Elizabeth’s Health Center in Tucson, Desert Senita Community Health Center in Ajo, and the Pima County Health Department. More than 10,000 students are served in the Vail, Tucson and Sunnyside school district programs alone.
Academic projects and collaborations with the UA Southwest Institute for Research on Women, UA Mexican American Studies, UA Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Arizona Health Sciences Library and the Colleges of Public Health and Pharmacy generate new ideas, new projects and new trainees.
For more information, visit the Web site http://womenshealth.arizona.edu.
Women’s Health Initiative
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI), sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was established in 1991 to address the imbalance in clinical trials which until then were conducted mostly on male subjects. The study marked the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the United States.
The Arizona WHI began in October 1993, led by principal investigator Tamsen Bassford, MD, chair of the UA College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine. More than 4,800 Arizona women participated, without compensation; 2,818 from the greater Tucson area and 2,063 from the greater Phoenix area. The Arizona site is unique in that it has served as an official site for not only the overall study, but also as a specialty site for collection of bone health outcomes and as a minority recruitment site.
The study included clinical and observational studies focused on a wide range of clinical outcomes, including cognition, breast cancer, fractures and osteoporosis, colorectal cancer, heart disease and more. The study also provided new insight into ethnic and racial differences in these clinical conditions. This trial stands out as the premier study of the risk of estrogen plus progesterone therapy after menopause, including elevated risk for cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. More than 600 research manuscripts have been published from the wealth of information collected.
While the initial phase of the study ended March 31, 2005, groundbreaking discoveries will continue to be made as the scientific community analyzes the data for years to come, promising to enhance the quality of life for all women.
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