Women in Clinical Trials

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Reporter gillian weinberger has been telling us about the push to include women in clinical trials. It culminated in major legislation in the 19 nineties, and then it kind of fell short in the real world. The law did result in some hanges, but n i h study design is just the first step in a long chain that funnels information from laboratories to doctors offices.

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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