Catch-22: Clinical Trials Edition

Hilda Bastian is cartoonist and writer at StatisticallyFunny blog

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.

Catch-22: Clinical Trials Edition
Women and children overboard, by @HildaBast

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. ”

Hilda Bastian is Editor etc at PubMed Health, blogger at Scientific American, commenting on the science of unbiased health research with cartoons at Statistically funny.

Continue reading Women and children overboard
by Hilda Bastian, 23 April 2013

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