Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD, Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor in Neurology Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern, comments on this sleep study.
June 17, 2014
As told to Sandra Guy, Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun Times
If you think gender equality had its heyday in the 1960s or ’70s, think again. The founder and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has been spearheading a revolution for five years that aims to transform everything from a doctor’s prescription to basic scientific research. In doing so, she has become a bit of a celebrity. She was featured in a “60 Minutes” report that generated a “Colbert Report” satire and was credited with changing federal scientific research policy — all because she advocates sex equity.
June 16, 2014
Chicago Sun-Times June 13, 2014
The Sitdown: Teresa Woodruff is a driving force for sex equity in medical science
http://www.suntimes.com/news/27972204-418/the-sitdown-teresa-woodruff-is...
The founder and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has been spearheading a revolution for five years that aims to transform everything from a doctor’s prescription to basic scientific research.
June 16, 2014
NATIONAL
New York Times June 15, 2014
‘Thinking of Ways to Harm Her’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/health/thinking-of-ways-to-harm-her.html
And doctors have historically been taught in medical school that “women don’t get depressed during pregnancy because they are happy,” said Dr. Katherine L. Wisner, a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics at Northwestern University and member of the WHRI Leadership Council..
June 16, 2014
NATIONAL
New York Times June 15, 2014
‘Thinking of Ways to Harm Her’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/health/thinking-of-ways-to-harm-her.html
And doctors have historically been taught in medical school that “women don’t get depressed during pregnancy because they are happy,” said Dr. Katherine L. Wisner, a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics at Northwestern University and member of the WHRI Leadership Council..
June 9, 2014
Ending the Gender Bias in Research
Chicago Tonight | May 29, 2014
June 4, 2014
Northwestern scientists talk on ‘60 Minutes’ about importance of using female cells and animals in research
May 28, 2014 | by Marla Paul
May 29, 2014
The work of two Northwestern researchers was influential in a recent policy change by the National Institutes of Health, which will require that researchers include their plans for balancing male and female cells and animals in preclinical studies with few exceptions.
The new policy will be put into practice beginning in October, and researchers seeking grants from NIH will be able to bypass the new requirements with only “rigorously defined exceptions.” Teresa Woodruff and Dr. Melina Kibbe worked with the NIH to institute the change, which Francis Collins, NIH director, announced on May 14.
“While it’s a step in the right direction, still more needs to be done,” said Kibbe, a professor of surgery and vice chair of research in the Feinberg School of Medicine. “Simply requiring researchers to ‘describe their plans’ is not quite there.”
April 22, 2014
Women's Health Research Institute Leadership Council members Dr. Melina Kibbe and Dr. Teresa Woodruff collaborated in the production of the 60 Minutes Segment "Sex Matters: Drugs Can Affect Sexes Differently." Consulting researchers from Northwestern University, the University California Irvine, and the Food and Drug Administration (among others), reporters at CBS News tracked the real story of gender inequity at the research level.
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