Women in Science - Doctor Florence Hazeltin and the N I H

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Doctor florence hazeltin was one of the very few o b g y ns at the n i h. She tried to get the organization to invest more resources into her field. The first meeting was held around a table that, at that time, was in the shape of a uterus unit.

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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