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Science 2 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5471, pp. 1562 - 1563
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1562
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WOMEN'S HEALTH:
Reports See Progress, Problems, in Trials

Laura Helmuth

Ten years after its scathing report on the National Institutes of Health's failure to include women in clinical research, the General Accounting Office has concluded that the NIH is doing much better. Women are clearly taking part in clinical studies--in even greater numbers than men. And the amount of money devoted to diseases, such as breast cancer and depression, that disproportionately afflict women has risen steadily, outpacing increases in the NIH's overall budget. But NIH-supported researchers aren't always putting their data on women subjects to use.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Enrollment of Women in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
D. J. Harris and P. S. Douglas (2000)
N. Engl. J. Med. 343, 475-480
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