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Robert Thompson: 301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Deceptive Feminist Narrative Has Tragic Consequences for Men’s Health

WASHINGTON / February 10 – Seven offices of women’s health currently exist in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

  1. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health (1)
  2. National Institutes of Health (2)
  3. Food and Drug Administration (3)
  4. Centers for Disease Control (4)
  5. Health Resources and Services Administration (5)
  6. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (6)
  7. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (7)

But inexplicably, DHHS does not have a single office of men’s health.

Feminists claim these offices are necessary to make up for decades of the purported exclusion of women from medical research and the underfunding of women’s health research.

For example, a 1993 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine asserted, “There is little doubt that women have been systematically excluded as subjects for study. . . most clinical trials have been heavily, if not exclusively, weighted toward men.” (8)

More recently, former First Lady Jill Biden made this claim: “Research on women’s health has been underfunded for decades, and many conditions that mostly or only affect women, or affect women differently, have received little to no attention.” (9)

But a review of the facts reveals the opposite to be true:

  1. As early as the 1970s, women were represented in 96% clinical trials sponsored by the NIH (10).
  2. An analysis of clinical trials conducted 1966-1990 found that women participated in 577 trials, compared to only 456 trials that included men (11).
  3. In 1994, the National Institutes of Health began to track the number of men and women in clinical trials, which revealed that women represented 51.8% of trial enrollees, with men being 44.9% of enrollees. The sex of the remaining persons was not reported (12).

In order to compensate for the presumed exclusion of women from research, budgets for women’s health were increased dramatically. In 2000, DHHS allocated approximately $5 billion to women’s health research and education, while the budget allocation of the DHHS men’s health programs was only $963.6 million, representing a 5:1 sex imbalance (13).

By any measure, the health of men is lagging behind the health of women:

  • Life Expectancy: The lifespan of men is 76.1 years, compared to 81.1 years for women (14).
  • Suicide: Men experience suicide rates that are nearly three times higher than women: Men: 14.7/100,000 persons; Women: 5.3/100,000. (15)
  • Workplace: Men face 15 times the number of occupational deaths, compared to women: Men: 6.2 deaths/100,000 workers, Women: 0.4/100,000 workers. (16)

How is it possible that our society has allowed a false narrative to persist for over 30 years, resulting in millions of dollars being spent on duplicative and unaccountable women’s health programs, while ignoring the suffering and deaths of men?

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Links:

  1. https://womenshealth.gov/
  2. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/
  3. https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/office-commissioner/office-womens-health
  4. https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/index.html
  5. https://www.hrsa.gov/office-womens-health
  6. https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/women.html
  7. https://www.samhsa.gov/about/advisory-councils/advisory-committee-womens-services
  8. Angell M. Caring for women’s health—What is the problem? N Engl J Med 1993; 329: 271–272.
  9. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/20/women-health-research-jill-biden-white-house
  10. Dickersin K, Min Y. NIH clinical trials and publication bias. Online J Curr Clin Trials. Doc. 50, vol. 2, April 28, 1993.
  11. https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2001/09000/Did_Medical_Research_Routinely_Exclude_Women__An.20.aspx , Table 3.
  12. National Institutes of Health. Implementation of the NIH Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research, December 1998.
  13. https://www.saveservices.org/2024/11/mens-health-programs-lag-by-a-51-margin-at-dhhs/
  14. https://menshealthnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/healthindicators.pdf
  15. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326948/WHO-MSD-MER-19.3-eng.pdf
  16. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hf1zRYHNDJjvunWWeoOl33VTVmPADtijzMniAmxBPRE/edit#gid=381346579