Women Not Included: Drugs and clinical trials

Discovery by BBC

Aug 10, 202626:30Religion & Spirituality

After working exclusively with male mice while looking for a treatment for type 1 diabetes, Dr Ella Hubber begins to uncover a much bigger issue: modern medicine is not built equally for everyone. Along with journalist C...

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