The National Institute of Health Reorganization Revitalization Act of 1993

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Law required the n i h to include women in their clinical trials. The law also mandated that they include racially diverse groups, both because of biological differences and systemic raceism. It took a few years, but the bill was finally signed into law in 19 93. Susan even got to go to the signing.

Until 1993, many researchers excluded women from clinical drug trials, leaving doctors in the dark about how new treatments work in more than half the population. This is the story of why that happened, the women who fought to change it, and what we still don’t know about how sex and gender affect health.

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