Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(8):597-599; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.8.597
© 2000 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Nelson, N. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Nelson, N. J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 8, 597-599, April 19, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Nurses’ Health Study: Nurses Helping Science and Themselves

Nancy J. Nelson

As the Nurses’ Health Study nears its 25-year anniversary, a glance back at the contributions made to women’s health by more than 100,000 nurses reveals an impressive legacy. Early findings focused on the effects of oral contraceptives and smoking on major illnesses in women. As time progressed, the study has broadened to look at the effects of dietary and other lifestyle factors on women’s health. Now, nearly 400 publications later, the Nurses’ Health Study is still active with more than 50 publications in 1999 alone.

It all began with the birth control pill. Frank E. Speizer, M.D., of Harvard Medical School’s Channing Laboratory in Boston, wanted to determine the long-term health effects, if any, of oral contraceptives. So, in 1976, as head of the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) research group, Speizer sent a letter and two-page questionnaire to 121,000 married, female registered . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Lifestyle Changes

Limitations

Cohort Comparisons


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?