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Pregnant women deserve better

Clinical trials routinely exclude expectant mothers. This is unethical and unscientific, and regulators must mandate change, says Françoise Baylis, in the second of three related pieces on gender bias in biomedicine.

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  1. CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects; available at http://www.cioms.ch/frame_guidelines_nov_2002.htm

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Baylis, F. Pregnant women deserve better. Nature 465, 689–690 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465689a

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