Caring for women's health - what is the problem?

Article Abstract:

Women are less likely to be involved in medical research studies than are men. Diseases that affect women are less likely to receive attention than those that mainly affect men. Men are more likely to be recruited for medical research studies and to be senior investigators on different studies. Studies often exclude women of childbearing age because of potential harm to a fetus from an experimental treatment. Some studies may include only one sex to reduce the number of variables. Many researchers believe that the results of studies using male research subjects can be applied to women. In 1990, the National Institutes of Health set up an Office of Research on Women's Health to examines these areas of discrimination.

Care and treatment, Cardiovascular diseases, Women, Diseases

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Privilege and health - what is the connection?

Article Abstract:

It is well known that socioeconomic status affects health status, but the reasons for this remain unclear. Professional status, income and educational level probably do not affect health directly but rather influence other variables which in turn influence health status. A long-held assumption that race affects health more than socioeconomic status is being challenged by studies which indicate that educational level may be a better predictor of mortality than race. It is also unknown how much of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health is dependent on better access to health care. The medical community needs to ensure that the social causes of ill health as well as diseases continue to be treated.

Health aspects, Demographic aspects, Health, Social status

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Caring for the dying -- congressional mischief

Article Abstract:

Congress may be doing a disservice to dying patients and their doctors by passing the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999. This would amend the Controlled Substances Act to make it easier to give dying patients proper pain relief. Yet the amendment would criminalize the prescribing of drugs to end a patient's life. It seems to be a deliberate attempt to thwart Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide. The amendment would also allow doctors to prescribe drugs that might cause death as long as that was not the doctor's intent.

Laws, regulations and rules, Assisted suicide

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