Opinion: Are five decades of progress in women’s health in peril?

Reviewing 50 years of progress on medical issues relevant to women can be a daunting and sometimes exacting task. But as we learned while writing about milestones in women’s health, it can also be a personal journey, having both come of age around the same year our review began.

As academic physicians specializing in women’s health, we were writing a Perspective piece for the New England Journal of Medicine’s yearlong series of articles celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the National Academy of Medicine. Our essay focused on medical advances and public policy during an initially tumultuous — then progressive — time for women’s health.

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