Wednesday 17 September 2014

Here's a big problem: Most surgical research ignores women

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The push to encourage women to enter STEM fields has become so ubiquitous that there are op-eds written seemingly every week, a dedicated page on the White House website, and even a line of interactive dolls. A lesser-known gender discrepancy in science, however, is the lack of female research subjects. Despite a 1993 law requiring women and minorities to be included as subjects in clinical research funded by the National Institutes of Health, women continue to be under-represented.

Of course, clinical trials (testing medical interventions on human subjects) are only a small subset of medical...

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