- National Women’s Health Week/Strategic PlanThe NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health has joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (OWH) to observe the 20th anniversary of National Women’s Health Week (NWHW), May 12–18.
- Make Your Voice Heard: The NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on Women’s HealthDr. Clayton discusses the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on Women’s Health.
- Into Our 26th Year, Confident and CommittedDr. Clayton discusses the 26th year.
- Meeting the Challenge of Sickle Cell DiseaseFor National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, Dr. Clayton discusses the disease and efforts to address it taking place across NIH.
- Women’s Health Research: 25 Years of Progress (and Counting)In commemoration of National Women's Health Week, Dr. Clayton reflects on the contributions of champions who helped establish the field of women's health research.
- American Heart Month: A Time to ReflectHeart disease research highlights the importance of investigating sex differences. Given the value of covering health differences between men and women in medical curricula, ORWH offers courses on sex and gender for continuing medical education credit.
- Sex as a Biological Variable: A Step Toward Stronger Science, Better HealthORWH announces new criteria for evaluating grants on how they factor sex as a biological variable into research designs, analyses, and reporting in vertebrate animal and human studies.
- Summer Science Sizzles!New research findings on the prevalence of multiple sclerosis in men versus women, how pain signals are relayed, and the effect of smoking on brain activity illustrate how sex influences brain biology.
- Toward More Individualized Medicine: Introducing the Women of Color Health Data Book, Fourth EditionThis post introduces the fourth edition of the Women of Color Health Data Book, a compilation of data on race/ethnicity and disease with relevant discussions of various factors that affect the health status of women of color.