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Apr 28, 2026

NIH-Funded Research Fails to Report Sex Differences Despite Decade-Old Requirement

A new study found that fewer than half of papers published by NIH-funded researchers analyze or report their data by sex, despite a 2016 NIH policy requiring scientists to consider sex as a biological variable. The gap persists a decade after the policy was implemented.

Apr 28, 2026·2 sources
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  • ▪Tom Babor is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • ▪61% of NIH-funded papers published between 2017 and 2024 included both sexes as subjects
  • ▪The National Institutes of Health established the Office of Women's Health Research in 1993

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Government and Regulatory Policy1National Institutes of Health1

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