Over two decades ago The National Institute of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton, supposedly setting the stage for major advances in women’s health by requiring that all NIH-funded medical research include women and minorities. Yet despite the expanded mandate, disparities still remain. The Revitalization Act of 1993 mandated, for the first time, the inclusion of women and minorities in research funded by The National Institutes of Health. Before then, medical researches --working on every scientific stage from early discovery to clinical trials--were encouraged to include women but, as it was never enforced, rarely did. Male mice were almost exclusively used in laboratory experiments. The now notorious "baby aspirin study", which found that taking a baby aspirin a day helps prevent heart attacks, was found to be conducted entirely on men and in application?-- the wo...
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