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In these pages you will find information you can use regarding women's health and gender-specific medicine, and what the Women's Health Program is doing at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. This site will be updated regularly, so check back often.

What is Women's Health & gender-specific biology or medicine?

Women's Health is concerned with diseases or conditions that are:

• unique to or more prevalent or serious in women,
• have distinct causes or manifest themselves differently in women, or
• have different outcomes or interventions than in men.

Women's health recognizes the diversity of women's health needs over the span of their lives, and how these needs reflect differences in race, class, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, levels of education and access to health care.

Gender/sex-specific biology examines gender differences in cells, organs, or individuals to discover how these differences affect the systems in which they function.

Gender-specific medicine is the science which examines how normal human biology differs between women and men and how the manifestations, mechanisms, and treatment of disease vary as a function of gender.