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Women experience adverse drug reactions at nearly twice the rate of men. That gap is not biological bad luck. It is the direct result of 16 years of FDA policy that excluded women from early-phase trials, and guidelines that never fully corrected for it.
By Vera Santos · 3 min read
Scientists have human-based testing tools that outperform animal models. A vast majority of regulatory submissions using those tools still fail review. The federal government just committed $150 million to fix that, but the money alone will not move the bottleneck.
By Vera Santos · 3 min read
A 2013 analysis estimated 91,000 women died prematurely after the 2002 WHI study scared them off HRT. The FDA's November 2025 black-box removal was overdue and correct. But the same bad communication that caused the original crisis is now driving the correction, and the nuance is getting lost again.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 5 min read