Your medicine was tested. Were you?

What the studies show

Across these common medicines

• 41%

  of the people tested were women

• 1.2%

  of studies looked at women's results separately

• 0

  studies recorded who was pregnant

Across these common medicines

The women left out

• Pregnant women

  • ✕Not allowed in 54% of studies
  • ✕0 studies recorded who was pregnant
  • ✕Safety info comes mostly from animals and later reports

• Breastfeeding moms

  • ✕Not allowed in 32% of studies
  • ✕Almost no study measured breast milk
  • ✕Advice often based on a handful of women

• Women 65 and older

  • ✕Age limit under 65 in 26% of studies
  • ✕Ages never split by sex
  • ✕Yet older women take these medicines most

• Women of color

  • ✕No race data in 56% of studies
  • ✕Never counted by sex
  • ✕Unknown if doses work the same