Among the conditions that predominantly affected women was, of course, all of reproductive health. In the wake of the GAO report, other medical-professional organizations, including the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, joined the growing chorus claiming that funding for research on women’s reproductive health was inadequate. The political controversy around abortion was part of the problem, but such research was also marginalized because, with no obstetrics and gynecology program, there was no clear home for it within the NIH. In fact,
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