Drug companies have failed to heed an FDA request to stop include young women in drug studies, so now the agency is proposing that the policy be made mandatory. Women of child-bearing age had been traditionally kept out of studies for fear of harming developing fetuses. The FDA sought a change in 1993, but in 4,000 studies done over the past three years, more than a quarter excluded young women, it said.
Opening Up Drug Studies
Drug companies have failed to heed an FDA request to stop include young women in drug studies, so now the agency is proposing that the policy be made mandatory. Women of child-bearing age had been traditionally kept out of studies for fear of harming developing fetuses. The FDA sought a change in 1993, but in 4,000 studies done over the past three years, more than a quarter excluded young women, it said.
