UK medical organisations back dedicated sex and gender research policies

Twenty nine UK medical research organisations and publishers, including the National Institute for Health and Care Research, the Association of Medical Research Charities, and The BMJ, have pledged their support for the introduction of dedicated policies on sex and gender in biomedical, health, and care research.Over the past year the organisations have worked with the George Institute for Global Health’s Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity (MESSAGE) project team to design a sex and gender policy framework, set to be implemented at the organisations in 2024.The UK currently lags behind other high income countries, such as Canada and the US, in the development and implementation of sex and gender policies. Notably, it has no standard guidance for researchers on how to consider sex in cell and animal studies or sex and gender in human studies.The George Institute has said that the lack of studies conducted on female cells, female animals,…
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