National Institutes of Health: Difference between revisions

In 2014, it was announced that the NIH is directing scientists to perform their experiments with both female and male animals, or cells derived from females as well as males if they are studying cell cultures, and that the NIH would take the balance of each study design into consideration when awarding grants.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |first=Roni Caryn |last=Rabin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/health/nih-tells-researchers-to-end-sex-bias-in-early-studies.html |title=Labs Are Told to Start Including a Neglected Variable: Females |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 14, 2014 |access-date=September 10, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906202122/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/health/nih-tells-researchers-to-end-sex-bias-in-early-studies.html |archive-date=September 6, 2015 }}</ref> The announcement also stated that this rule would probably not apply when studying sex-specific diseases (for example, ovarian or testicular cancer).<ref name="nytimes.com"/>