by Margaret Lutze on June 2, 2014
Gender bias in medical research has been ordered to stop by the National Institutes of Health, which is commonly referred to as NIH. A new NIH policy was announced by Francis Collins, the director of NIH, and Janine Clayton, the director of the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, that calls for preclinical research to be balanced between males and females. Both subjects must be gender balanced and research involving cells must include cells from both males and females. This new policy extends previous policies that called for a balance in male and female human subjects in clinical medical research.
NIH is the branch of the U.S. federal government that funds medical research. Research labs throughout the United States, many of which are in universities, depend on funding from NIH to carry out their research. Scientists write lengthy formal research proposals that are submitted to NIH for peer review. Other scientists, who are their peers and presumably understand the area of research, judge the research proposal and then meet in Washington, DC to hash over the details and determine whether the grant proposal will be funded.
Read more at
http://guardianlv.com/2014/06/gender-bias-in-medical-research-to-stop/#rL3D7uBvABTvtwSm.99------
If they only factor in male and female isn't the research still technically biased?
