Diversity in Medicine

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Former congresswoman Patricia schroeder pushed for the 19 93 law. Schroeder says there are still a lot of unknowns we need to address in terms of how treatment might affect different groups differently. "I hope that ten, 20, 30 years from now, the declinations that we're training now will have a very different mind set"

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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