A piece in this week’s Maclean’s magazine by Anne Kingston talks about how women have been largely excluded from medical research, and why women should be “outraged” about this.
CWHN has been working to close this “gender gap” for almost two decades.
The article quotes Abby Lippman, the former longtime chair of CWHN’s board, as well as Barbara Mintzes, a researcher who was integral to the work of Women and Health Protection whose work we have often promoted.
Read Medicine’s Deadly Gender Gap.
This week CWHN’s Executive Director Anne Rochon Ford sent a submission to Health Canada about the inclusion of women in clinical trials. This submission is a response to Health Canada’s Draft Guidance Document on the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials that was discussed in the Maclean’s article.
Read her submission below.
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| Inclusion of women in clinical trials - CWHN response to guidance document May 2012.docx | 74.62 KB |
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