Glaring gaps persist in medical researchers’ efforts to understand gender differences in common diseases, two decades after the passage of pivotal legislation mandating that more women be included in government-funded clinical trials, according to a new report. Paula Johnson, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study. Elizabeth Nabel, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an HMS professor of medicine, and Jagmeet Singh, associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are also quoted.
