Title: A resolution expressing support for the designation of a "Women's Health Research Day".
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for the designation of a Women's Health Research Day.
It also supports efforts to (1) recognize the importance of biomedical and clinical research to women's health, (2) increase awareness of the value of sex- and gender-based biomedical research, and (3) encourage individuals to advocate on behalf of sex- and gender-inclusive research.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 29 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 29

 Expressing support for the designation of a ``Women's Health Research 
                                 Day''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 24), 2019

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Markey, Ms. Hassan, Mr. 
   King, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Harris, Mr. Brown, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Van 
   Hollen, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
 Bennet, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Stabenow, and 
 Ms. Rosen) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
        the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing support for the designation of a ``Women's Health Research 
                                 Day''.

Whereas women constitute 50.8 percent of people in the United States;
Whereas women of different races, ethnicities, ages, and socioeconomic status 
        experience many diseases and disorders differently than men experience 
        those diseases and disorders;
Whereas those different experiences are reflected in the incidence, prevalence, 
        symptomology, and severity of the disease or disorder;
Whereas the risks and benefits of medical therapies vary based on the race, 
        ethnicity, age, and socioeconomic status of a woman;
Whereas women and men have fundamental biological differences;
Whereas, for many years, women of different races, ethnicities, ages, and 
        socioeconomic status were underrepresented in biomedical and clinical 
        research;
Whereas the improvement of the health of women relies on sex- and gender-based 
        biomedical and clinical research;
Whereas the promise of individualized medicine cannot be realized without sex- 
        and gender-based parity in research;
Whereas, on January 25, 2016, the National Institutes of Health implemented a 
        policy requiring federally funded investigators to consider sex as a 
        biological variable in preclinical research; and
Whereas that policy ushered in a new era of inclusivity and parity in research 
        relating to the health of women: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, that the Senate--
            (1) expresses support for the designation of a ``Women's 
        Health Research Day''; and
            (2) supports efforts--
                    (A) to recognize the importance of biomedical and 
                clinical research to the health and well-being of 
                women;
                    (B) to increase awareness of the value of sex- and 
                gender-based biomedical research; and
                    (C) to encourage individuals, including researchers 
                and patients, to advocate on behalf of sex- and gender-
                inclusive research for women of different races, 
                ethnicities, ages, and socioeconomic status.
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