Question: how does Mayo clinic prevent gender bias in drugs testing

Posted by EllAmster @ellamster, 1 day ago

Ever since articles came out about drugs being mostly tested on men (for numerous reasons), nothing much has changed.
I found below article from October 2025, and am wondering how the Mayo Clinic counters such bias.
To complicate matters, I heard research usually tests on white males, and that white males differ more from one another (in DNA) than white/black and black men from one another, this might complicate matters.

Does anyone have ideas on how to counter this?
Do researchers take the difference between male and female bodies into account?
How about race differences?
Do you have tips?
I would like to know more.

I removed the link because I am not sure a link is allowed 🙂
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2840278

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Justin McClanahan, Moderator | @JustinMcClanahan | 1 day ago

Hello @ellamster,

This is a complex question but one that is not unknown to the science community. Mayo Clinic often partners with other institutions in their research and there is no 'one size fits all' answer to such a complex discussion both scientifically and ethically.

Mayo Clinic has an internal review board for all of its research and with that it does address many of the questions you asked. You may want to start there, https://www.mayo.edu/research/institutional-review-board/overview.