PMID- 25936139
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150611
LR  - 20150504
IS  - 0047-1852 (Print)
IS  - 0047-1852 (Linking)
VI  - 73
IP  - 4
DP  - 2015 Apr
TI  - [The history and perspective of gender-specific medicine in Japan].
PG  - 547-50
AB  - The history of gender-specific medicine started when Barbara Seaman, a female 
      American journalist, started the women's health movement in 1957. Since then, the 
      National Institutes of Health(NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) have 
      promoted gender-specific medicine in USA, including the Women's Health 
      Initiative(WHI) by NIH in 1991 and the Office on Women's Health(OWH) by FDA in 
      1995. In Japan, being stimulated by the movements in USA, Dr. Chuwa Tei founded 
      Japan' s first women' s clinic in Kagoshima University in 2001, and Dr. Keiko 
      Amano founded the Association for Gender-Specific Medicine in 2004. These 
      activities developed into the establishment of the Japanese Association for 
      Gender-Specific Medicine in 2008, for which Dr.Tei served as the first president 
      for 4 years, followed by Hiroaki Shimokawa since 2012. Furthermore, the 
      importance of gender-specific medicine has been emerging worldwide, resulting in 
      the establishment of International Society of Gender Medicine in 2012. Indeed, 
      the history of gender-specific medicine is 60 years worldwide and is only 15 
      years in Japan. However, gender-specific medicine will become more and more 
      important not only in medicine but also in the whole society.
FAU - Shimokawa, Hiroaki
AU  - Shimokawa H
LA  - jpn
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Historical Article
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Nihon Rinsho
JT  - Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine
JID - 0420546
SB  - IM
MH  - Female
MH  - History, 20th Century
MH  - History, 21st Century
MH  - Humans
MH  - Japan
MH  - Male
MH  - Pharmacology/*history
MH  - *Sex Characteristics
EDAT- 2015/05/06 06:00
MHDA- 2015/06/13 06:00
CRDT- 2015/05/05 06:00
PHST- 2015/05/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/05/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/06/13 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nihon Rinsho. 2015 Apr;73(4):547-50.