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Catch-22 Clinical Trial Edition

" It's the Catch-22 of clinical trials:

to protect pregnant women and children from the risks of untested drugs....we don't test drugs adequately for them.

 

In the last few decades, we've been more concerned about the harms of research than of inadequately tested treatments for everyone, in fact. But for "vulnerable populations," like pregnant women and children, the default was to exclude them. "

 

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commenting on the science of unbiased health research with cartoons, by Hilda Bastian

 

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