Update in Women's Health
Authors: Jeane Ann Grisso
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1996)

Updates1 August 1996Update in Women's HealthJeane Ann Grisso, MD, MSc and Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPHJeane Ann Grisso, MD, MScFrom University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Search for more papers by this author and Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPHFrom University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-125-3-199608010-00010 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail In 1990, a report from the General Accounting Office highlighted the failure of many important studies to include women; partly in response to that report, the National Institutes of Health opened the Office of Women's Health Research. Since that time, women's health care has become a burgeoning field of medical study.Although women's health is rapidly becoming part of the mainstream of medicine, this update focuses on important and provocative subjects: domestic violence, medical abortion, nutrition, hormonal therapy, the problems of elderly women, and issues of women in medical academic careers.Domestic ViolenceDomestic violence is now recognized as a ...References1. Alpert EJ. Violence in intimate relationships and the practicing internist: new disease or new agenda? Ann Intern Med. 1995; 123:774-81. Google Scholar2. Lindheim BL, Cotterill MA. Training in induced abortion by obstetrics and gynecology residency programs. Fam Plann Perspect. 1978; 10:24-8. Google Scholar3. Darney PD, Landy U, MacPherson S, Sweet RL. Abortion training in U.S. obstetrics and gynecology residency programs. Fam Plann Perspect. 1987; 19:158-62. Google Scholar4. McKay J. 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Ness, MD, MPH, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.Current Author Addresses: Dr. Grisso: Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 920 Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byOrbital fractures due to domestic violence: an epidemiologic study 1 August 1996Volume 125, Issue 3Page: 213-220KeywordsBody mass indexDomestic violenceDrugsExerciseFallsObesityObstetrics and gynecologyOsteoporosisPregnancyZinc ePublished: 15 August 2000 Issue Published: 1 August 1996 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1996 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...