"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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