Women's Health: Promising Advances, But Challenges Persist

The field of women's health is one of the most progressive medical technology sectors in the US, driven by the aging population, diagnostic advances in deadly ovarian and colorectal cancer, and medical device innovations in gynecologic and urogynecologic disease management, including a shift toward minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques and robotics and the addition of a new field: bariatric gynecology. At the WH 2.0 Consensus Conference on Women's Health, held recently in Los Angeles, experts agreed that advances in medical technology are promising better detection and treatment of a host of diseases impacting both premenopausal and postmenopausal women. However, challenges remain in managing obesity-related disease and improving screening for often-undetected cancers in women.

"No nation is healthier than its women": a telling statement by Ari Babaknia, MD, chairman of the Medical Advisory Board for the Los Angeles Center for Women's Health (LACWH), in his opening remarks at the inaugural WH 2.0 Consensus Conference on Women's Health, held February 9-11 in downtown Los Angeles. At this first-of-its-kind multidisciplinary event, organized by LACWH and the California Hospital Medical Center, thought-leading physicians and researchers discussed the very latest progress being made in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of disorders that are poised to take a dramatic toll on women's health, and the already-strained US health care system, in the coming years.

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