“Policy: NIH to balance sex in cell and animal studies”
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1 min readJan 6, 2015
“Today, just over half of NIH-funded clinical-research participants are women. We know much more about the role of sex and gender in medicine, such as that low-dose aspirin has different preventive effects in women and men, and that drugs such as zolpidem, used to treat insomnia, require different dosing in women and men.There has not been a corresponding revolution in experimental design and analyses in cell and animal research — despite multiple calls to action.”
