NEWS

	The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment has just released a new publication: “Toxic Matters”.
	Newly published analysis of cancer screening tests, co-authored by Dr. Laura Esserman, spurs national re-examination of mammograms and other tests.
	Women's Health Clinical Research Center Co-Director Deborah Grady was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine. Read a commentary co-authored by Dr. Grady, Postmenopausal Hormone Treatment, in JAMA.
	Denise Rodgers, the 2009 Robert H. Crede Visiting Professor in Primary Care, delivers keynote address at UCSF's third annual health disparities research symposium

Margaret Chesney, PhD is appointed Director of UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

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PROGRAMS

CenteringPregnancy® An exciting way for women to receive their prenatal care

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DIRECTOR’S SPOTLIGHT

Global Women’s Health & Empowerment

When women are educated, empowered, healthy, and have access to comprehensive healthcare, personal safety, and economic opportunity their newborns have higher birth weights, their infants have a greater chance of surviving childhood, their children are better educated, their families are more productive, and their communities grow stronger. Learn about the vision of the Center of Expertise in Women’s Health & Empowerment in the new UC Global Health Institute.

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Advancing Women's Healthcare

Imagine a future in which every doctor who cares for you understands your unique female biology and values your preferences.

Imagine a future in which health care providers work in teams and share information with each other -- and you -- via the internet.

Imagine a brand new state of the art hospital in San Francisco devoted entirely to providing women a lifetime of reproductive health, where a woman can have a baby in a birthing center, receive the latest in breast cancer care, uterine fibroid treatment or incontinence all in a woman-centered environment.

That future is closer than you think thanks to the vision of lifelong women's healthcare advocate and expert Dr. Nancy Milliken. Dr. Milliken, who for decades has pioneered efforts to change the medical system from within, helped create the UCSF National Center for Excellence in Women's Health in 1996. Now a decade later she is a force behind the planned new UCSF Women's Specialty Hospital at Mission Bay. The Women's Hospital is part of a new $1.5 billion UCSF medical complex scheduled to break ground in 2011.

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