Federal officials promise to restore funding to the women's health initiative
After a protest from scientists and health experts, federal health officials declared that they would restore funding to the women's health initiative, one of the greatest and long studies on the health of women ever conducted.The results of the Whi and its controlled randomized studies have changed medical practices and contributed to modeling clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer."These studies represent critical contributions to our best understanding of women's health," said Emily G. Hilliard, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services."Now we are working to completely restore funding to these essential research efforts," he added. The National Institutes of Health "remains deeply committed to ...