The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has recently launched JAMA + Women’s Health, a centralized hub for scholarly research on women’s health published in JAMA and the JAMA Network journals.
The goal of this new initiative is to amplify original research, commentary, and clinical education publications that center on health conditions that affect women exclusively, predominately, or disproportionately. This innovative resource aims to make content easily discoverable for busy clinicians and readers who are interested in the latest evidence and guidance for patient care.
“For decades, clinicians have used the best available clinical evidence to provide care for their patient,” said Linda Brubaker, editor-in-chief of JAMA + Women’s Health. “A lot of those studies have used men as their participants, and they excluded women or women were very poorly represented in those studies. This limits the generalizability of information from those trials. And now, with rigorous studies that include women or focus exclusively on women, we have much better evidence.”
She continued, “There’s been so much conversation about personalization of medicine, down to a single individual, but if we even made the big step forward to understand the differences in genetics and physiology that women have, we will improve health care options.”