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Illinois Women, Help Sciencists Find Clues to Disease Prevention and Cures-Join the Illinois Women’s Health Registry

Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged Clinical trial, Conditions and Diseases, Illinois Women's Healthy Registry, Northwestern University, Women's Health on December 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »

By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer

Are you a female over 18 years of age in Illinois? Want to help out researchers in identifying and perhaps someday preventing disease in woman (versus in men)? Then sign up for the Illinois Women’s Health Registry online today!

The Institute for Women’s Health Research at Northwestern University created the Illinois Women’s Health Registry to help women and medical professionals in Illinois find out why diseases affect women differently than men. The Illinois Women’s Health Registry database will assist investigators to understand the relationship between environmental exposures, stress, health symptoms, health trends and disease by gathering data on large numbers of women. The Registry will help foster research in the area of women’s health. It will become an informational resource and a recruiting tool for research participants. The Registry will make a concerted effort to include women from diverse social classes and racial/ethnic backgrounds in order to promote diversity in research studies and clinical trials. The Register gives you with an opportunity to enroll in a cause that encourages the study of sex differences between women and men that affect the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. If you want to improve knowledge about women’s health for yourself your daughters, your granddaughters, and many generations beyond, then you need to assist medical researchers in finding the answers. Joining the register is one way you can help…without leaving your computer!