I'll Find Out for You, Wel How Many Are There?

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Vnh had 39 veterinarians and only three o b g i ns. This didn't exactly surprise congresswoman shroder, who was used to being outnumbered. When she joined the house, she was one of only 14 women. And she wasn't happy about the aspern study either. They teamed up with another congressman, henry waxman, and they started digging into the n i h's internal guide lines.

Until 1993, many researchers excluded women from clinical drug trials, leaving doctors in the dark about how new treatments work in more than half the population. This is the story of why that happened, the women who fought to change it, and what we still don’t know about how sex and gender affect health.

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