California Health and Safety Code

§ 439.901

HSC § 439.901Div. 1 · Part 1.6

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s major source of funding for medical research conducted in the United States, spends approximately 13 percent of its budget for research on conditions and diseases that are primarily women’s health issues. Although it is true that the great majority of the NIH research funds are expended for studies of diseases that affect both men and women, or for fundamental research that has significance for diseases affecting all segments of our population, women have not been adequately represented in research populations in major NIH-funded studies of diseases which affect both men and women.

(b)Today many medical treatments currently used on women are based on studies conducted entirely on men. For example, although cardiovascular illness is the number one cause of death and disability in American women, women have consistently been excluded from major research studies in this area.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 792, Sec. 1.