Up until very recently, government-funded research has been conducted almost exclusively by, on, and for white men. It was only in 1993 that Congress passed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, a law requiring that women and minorities be included in clinical trials funded by the federal government’s National Institutes of Health. 1993. Two and a half decades later, women are still underrepresented in medical research. While heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States, for example, less than one-third of cardiovascular clinical trial subjects
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