Word: guinan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MARY GUINAN...
Chronically understaffed and underfunded, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control was the first branch of the medical establishment to take AIDS seriously. Doing basic shoe-leather epidemiology, the CDC staff followed every clue that might lead them to the source of contagion. No one worked harder than Dr. Guinan, an expert on sexually transmitted diseases, who interviewed dozens of men, women, drug addicts and prisoners, asking the most personal questions about their sex lives. Their stories convinced her that the infection was transmitted sexually and intravenously, and she immediately set about trying to sound the alarm...
...Today Guinan is chief of the Urban Health Research Centers at CDC, where she still stresses prevention. "People have to understand that the more sex partners they have, the more they will be at risk," she says. "But they don't want to hear that...
...year. Yet last year the NIH spent just $77 million studying the ailment, including only $16 million on basic research. Two years ago, the NIH halted a major study on breast cancer and low-fat diets because of cost considerations. "I can't believe that decision," says Dr. Mary Guinan, assistant director for science at the Centers for Disease Control. "If we could tell women that their diet lowered their risk, we could save thousands of lives...
...menopause has also failed to garner many federal dollars. Though an estimated one-third of older women are taking hormone-replacement therapy to combat osteoporosis and other effects of menopause, many questions remain about how this treatment might alter the risks of breast cancer and heart disease. Says Guinan: "As doctors, we think we're helping women when we may actually be harming them." Meanwhile, no new contraceptive method has been approved in the U.S. since the 1960s. Overall, the NIH spends only 13% of its $7.7 billion budget on women's health issues, < according to the Women's Caucus...