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For Immediate Release: Friday, April 13, 2001
Contact: Barbara Oldroyd
WOMEN'S GROUP DISPUTES NIH "RETRACTION"
Rockville, MD -- A leading women's health research organization has
disputed the statement that the National Institutes of Health has
"retracted" prior claims that women were "routinely excluded" from
medical research.
The Society for Women's Health Research, a Washington, DC-based group,
recently released a statement that the NIH Office of Research on Women's
Health "did not retract any statements regarding the historical
inclusion of women in clinical trials." The statement can be found at
www.womens-health.org/menshealth.html.
The Society also defended the fact that male participation in
NIH-funded studies has fallen from 45% to 32% in recent years, and that
female-only studies now outnumber male-only studies by a 3:1 margin. The
SWHR downplayed the fact that only 1.5% and of eligible men, vs. 4.0% of
eligible women, participate in cancer clinical trials. The Society also
calls it a "fallacy" that men face twice the risk of dying of heart
disease as women.
The response of Men's Health America can be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/menshealth/message/302.
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Men's Health America is dedicated to understanding the 6-year gap in
male life expectancy, and its effects on women and children. MHA is a
research and education organization based in Rockville, Maryland.
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