MedCity News March 17, 2025
Modern trial designs, digital solutions and a deeper understanding of patient realities are helping to open research to more people, including women and others who have historically been underrepresented.
Every International Women’s Day invites reflection: Where have we made strides toward equity, and where do critical gaps remain? In clinical research, we see clear and sometimes sobering examples of how important these reflections can be. Until 1993, women weren’t even required to be included in U.S. clinical trials — an eye-opening fact that illustrates how recently the pursuit of truly representative research began.
And while progress has been made, the work is far from finished. Trials that fail to reflect the spectrum of patients likely to need the treatment...