Fifth Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services AUTHORS:US Preventive Services Task Force The Affordable Care Act mandates that the US Preventive Services Task Force make an annual report to Congress, and this year’s report calls for a focus on women’s health beyond reproductive health issues. They identified five “high […]
gender research, Policy, prevention, research, USPSTF
Collection, Analysis, and Availability of Demographic Subgroup Data for FDA-Approved Medical Products August 2013 In 2012, Congress passed a law, The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, which recommended that medical product applications submitted for marketing approval improve their demographic subgroup data’s completeness, quality, and availability. FDA was to investigate how well demographic […]
FDA, GENDER MEDICINE, legislation, research
Health Researchers Will Get $10.1 Million to Counter Gender Bias in Studies New York Times; Roni Caryn Rabin September. 23, 2014 The Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative congratulates the leaders at the NIH Office of Women’s Health for their advocacy work to ensure that females are included in research supported by the NIH Office. […]
NIH, research, Sex and Gender Differences
Sex bias exists in basic science and translational surgical research; Women still excluded These authors from Northwestern University in Chicago, which, by the way, does have a well-respected 25 year-old Women’s Center, reviewed over 2000 basic science articles in premiere US surgical journals (2011 and 2012), and found that invisibility of results specific to women […]
Animal Research., gender bias, Gender differences, research, sex bias