Dr. Mitzi Krockover explains the paternalistic history that left women out of clinical trials for decades. Yes, hormones are variables. Yes, pregnancy is a consideration. But excluding 51% of the population meant treatments designed for men being prescribed to women with unknown consequences.
Even more shocking? It wasn't until 2016—just 9 years ago—that researchers were required to even CONSIDER sex as a biological variable in their studies.
We're still catching up from centuries of medical research that treated women as "small men with complications."
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