Florence Haseltine | Nov 8, 1998 | 4 min read
The concept of "gender-based biology" can be traced to the late 1980s, during the formative days of the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research. In a discussion with the then president of the Institute of Medicine, Samuel Thier, about the omission of women from the design of clinical trials, Thier commented that there were real gender issues. He also offered that researchers needed to take advantage of the information the exploration of those differences could provide. The challe