Sex bias in medical research
Subject in Medicine
Sex bias in medical research has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Next Question with Katie Couric. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Stacey E. RosenCardiologist, executive director of Northwell Health's Katz Institute for Women's Health and immediate past volunteer president of the American Heart Association
Rosen argued that women were excluded from early research partly because researchers doubted their ability to consent and equated women's health with reproduction.
“We didn't think they could give consent appropriately. We thought that women's health was just entirely related to reproductive health. And so we excluded them”
Next Question with Katie Couric: The Art Of Aging: The Heart Of The Matter (Oct 6, 2026) · Listen from 6:02
Rosen said heart disease was historically viewed as a man's illness, so men were studied and treated while women's symptoms were minimized.
“We thought this was a man's illness. We studied men. We treated men. We even thought women didn't get the disease, so we minimized their symptoms”
Next Question with Katie Couric: The Art Of Aging: The Heart Of The Matter (Oct 6, 2026) · Listen from 3:27
Podcasts
- Next Question with Katie Couric · 1 episode
Episodes
The Art Of Aging: The Heart Of The MatterNext Question with Katie Couric · Oct 6, 2026 · 1 h 8 min
Katie Couric and cardiologist Stacey Rosen discuss heart disease in women, from research bias and symptoms to life-stage risks, cholesterol, testing and prevention.