Video: Women's Health Matters

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Cardiovascular Disease

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Number one killer of women

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Lung Cancer

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Deadliest cancer for women

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Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women’s Health Research

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Goals of a world where the biomedical research enterprise thoroughly integrates sex and gender influences, where every woman receives evidence-based disease prevention and treatment, where women in science careers reach their full potential

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Biomedical Research

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Women are significantly absent in these types of study, only 49% of studies included men and women.

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NIH Revitalization Act

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Pushed researchers to add women to the research but didn’t have enough push to get women into these studies.

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Sex as a Biological Variable Policy

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Great idea but only requires some justification for the inclusion of women.

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Gaps in Evidence Base

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Seen because of lack of research including women, also costing our society in billions of dollars