Commentary: Clinical trials are better at including women. But data analysis is still a real problem.
by Nicole Woitowich, Chicago Tribune
Jul 11, 2023
3 minutes
The summer of 1993 was an eventful time: Prince changed his name to a symbol, “Jurassic Park” was released and Congress passed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act requiring the inclusion of women in clinical research.
Most people aren’t aware of this law, which requires that women be included in research to develop drugs, therapies and treatments that are designed to improve the health of all people. For decades, women were underrepresented in or excluded from biomedical research studies because
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