Revolution Health: Women’s Health
Posted by Rachel on June 26, 2007
Last night I participated in a conference call sponsored by Revolution Health with special guest Sherry Marts, Vice President of Scientific Affairs for the Society for Women’s Health Research.
Other bloggers participating in the call included:
-Christine Cupaiuolo of Our Bodies, Our Blog and Women’s Voices for Change
-Denise of Flamingo House Happenings and BlogHer (her summary)
-Catherine Morgan from BlogHer and Women4Hope (her summary)
-Cynthia Samuels of Don’t Gel Too Soon and Revolution Health
-Pam of Well Soul (her summary)
This is a great, informed group of women who asked excellent questions and really kept the call moving.
Each blogger had the opportunity to ask Dr. Marts for her thoughts on women’s health research issues. Topics of discussion included hormone therapy, research priorities and funding, HIV/AIDS, microbicides, sex-based biology, women’s use of medications (which may or may not have been adequately tested in women), the HPV vaccine, communicating accurate health information in an ever-changing landscape, how women with chronic pain experience changes in their pain related to hormone fluctuations (such as around menstruation), the political climate around offices of women’s health (such as at the FDA and CDC), and others. I personally asked about how bloggers can convey information to their readers, such as on hormone therapy, when what is “right” seems to change constantly, and about priorities for research and how level or decreased funding at the National Institutes of Health will affect those priorities across the board. Audio will be available later, and I’ll update with a link then is now available.
Thanks go to Dr. Marts for participating, Cynthia for organizing the event, and Revolution Health for sponsoring the call. Please take a moment to visit Revolution Health’s Online Health Fair, featuring links to and information about organizations such as the Society for Women’s Health Research, American Kidney Fund, and National Alliance on Mental Illness. For the next few days, each time you click on an organization’s “booth” in the fair, Revolution Health will make a donation to that organization (you get one click/donation per group per day).
