” 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. ”
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
All our posts about the #AllTrials campaign. More about Big Pharma – Clinical Trials – Prescriptions Drugs – the FDA – the Pharmaceutical Industry
On Flickr®
Watch the Diaporama, and the health comics album on 
If you already have a flickr® account, add us as a contact
Email your photos to des.daughter@gmail.com with a short description and title 