Speaking Out "What do women do now?” a reporter asked in a February New York Times article detailing the confusing and sometimes contradictory findings of studies based on the National Institutes of Health’s Women’s Health Initiative. “They can insist that the National Institutes of Health undertake an impartial outside review of the $400 million Women’s Health Initiative that has produced report after counterintuitive report with conclusions that contradict hundreds of other studies published in respected medical journals,” responded Council Distinguished Colleague Sheldon J. Segal in a letter to the editor. Segal went on to delineate some of the problems with the original study and to propose that an objective external review be conducted by the independent Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Segal is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his association with the Council this year. He is a leading expert on the biology of reproduction.(Return to issue contents)
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