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...serious family illness that turned Manson toward women's health, the field that became her specialty. Manson's mother developed ovarian cancer in 1979 and died several months later...
...discovered that there were a lot of areas that hadn't been addressed at all," Manson says. Since then, she has devoted a great deal of time and effort to research in women's health, especially regarding lifestyle influences on disease and the prevention of diabetes...
...Manson has so far been pleased with the progress of the Women's Health Initiative, a $628 million program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health that studies crucial issues in women's health, including diabetes and cancer. Manson is a regional coordinator for the initiative...
While it will be several years yet before the complete results of the survey are known, Manson is not shaken by some early results that show that estrogen supplements may not be an effective treatment for heart disease--and that they may in fact increase the risk...
Another component of her job, and one that Manson says she finds very satisfying, is teaching. She has spent about 300 hours each year for the last 14 years mentoring medical students from the School of Public Health and elsewhere who are interested in epidemiology, the study of the causes and spread of diseases within populations...