Through the Medical Maze

An article instructing women on how to go about conducting medical research and reading medical studies. Written by Barbara Mintzes, a member of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), the article demystifies the objectivity and absolute truth often afforded to medical studies, and suggests that women get together and read critically medical studies and their published findings. Mintzes explains different types of studies, study designs, and ways of judging the validity of results. Mintzes encourages women to become informed and comfortable with information commonly limited to doctors and other health care professionals and researchers.