Three Disasters in Women's Health Research

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In the 19 sixties, clinical research on women was pulled back by some productive health tragedies. The phelitymide, d e s and the dalcon shield were all disasters in their own right. This is susan wood, currently a research professor of health policy and management. She tells me about three tragedies in particular.

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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