Health for Women

Three women running.

For Many Female Athletes, Bone Stress and Missing Period Is the Norm

Q&A with Traci Carson and Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez

The culture of running promotes a body weight and size ideal that is unhealthy among elite female collegiate distance runners, according to preliminary findings from a series of interviews by University of Michigan researchers.

Middle aged woman

Michigan Public Health-Led Journal Indexed in PubMed

Women’s Midlife Health—a BMC journal started by Siobán Harlow, professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health—is now indexed in PubMed. Being indexed by PubMed or another indexation service is a reflection of the scientific quality of the journal.