From 1977 to 1993 the FDA formally banned most women of childbearing potential from participating in

From 1977 to 1993 the FDA formally banned most women of childbearing potential from participating in early phase clinical drug trials. Not just pregnant women; all premenopausal women, including those on contraception. The reasoning was fetal protection. The effect was that an entire generation of medications went to market tested almost entirely on male bodies, then prescribed to women who metabolize drugs differently, with different hormonal cycles, immune responses, and fat distribution. Women experience adverse drug reactions at nearly twice the rate of men. A 2001 Government Accountability Office report found that nine out of ten prescription drugs pulled from the market between 1997 and 2000 posed greater health risks to women. The ban was lifted in 1993. As recently as 2019, women still made up only 40% of clinical trial participants for the diseases that most affect them. And in cancer trials between 2017 and 2020, Black participants made up just 2 to 5% of enrollees despite being 12% of the US population. You are taking medications that were not tested on your body. That is the federal record. #learnontiktok #todayilearned #didyouknow #ScienceTok #tiktoklearningcampaign

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