As I reflect on all that  I am thankful for today, I have to include the progress made in women's health research and development in the past year alone.  We now have medicines available that were only pipeline dreams a decade ago. According to the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers' Association, there are now 348 additional new medicines in development for women.

• There are 60 new medicines in development for breast cancer,  which may kill 43,000 women in the U.S. this year.
  
  
• There are 38 new medicines in development for ovarian cancer, expected to claim 14,000 lives in the US this year.
  
  
• There are 24 new medicines in development for rheumatoid arthritis, a progressive cause of pain and disability in 1.5 million American women.
  
  
• There are 23 new medicines in development for Alzheimer's disease, which kills more than 14,000 women a year.
  
  
• There are 18 new medicines in development for depression, which affects 12.6 million American women.
  
  
• There are 24 new medicines in development for osteoporosis, which affects nearly 25 million American women and which caused two new fractures in the past minute.

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Created: 11/23/2000  -  Donnica Moore, M.D.