It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer.
But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke …

Extensive medical, public health, and social science research have focused on cataloguing
male–female differences in human health. Unfortunately, much of this research …

Open up any biomedical or public health journal prior to the 1970s, and one term will be
glaringly absent: gender. Open up any recent biomedical or public health journal, and two …

Health research has failed to adequately explore the combination of social and biological
sources of differences in men's and women's health. Consequently, scientific explanations …

There is a growing appreciation by the biomedical community that studying the impact of sex
and gender on health, aging, and disease will lead to improvements in human health. Sex …

A little over 5 years ago, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the intention
to develop policies to require applicants to report plans to balance male and female cells …

This article addresses 2 questions. First, to what extent are sex and gender incorporated into
research on genetics and health? Second, how might social science understandings of sex …

Research policies aiming to integrate sex and gender in scientific studies are receiving
increased attention in academia. Incorporating these policies into health research is …

Sex and gender differences in health: Science & Society Series on Sex and Science: EMBO
reports: Vol 13, No 7 All EMBO Press journals Open Access as of 1 January 2024 - read the …

Abstract In June 2015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a Guide notice (NOT-
OD-15-102) that highlighted the expectation of the NIH that the possible role of sex as a …