Clinical Trials: Women Needed
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Women in clinical trials
Begin learning more about the sterilization campaign by reading the following literature:
Women, Race, & Class by Dr. Angela Y. Davis
Annette B. Ramirez de Arellano and Conrad Scipp, Colonialism, Catholicism, Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico. Dr. Ramirez has done extensive research on the subject of sterilizatin of Puerto Rican women.
Deborah Kotz replies
Thanks for the comments. Stephen, with regards to your question, I didn't find a lot of academic references to this, but Ana María García did an award-winning documentary La Operación (1982) on this topic. Here's a lnk to an interview with her.
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC29folder/AnaMariaGarciaInt.html
Well done!
Excellent and very important piece. Minority participation in trials has been a huge problem in clinical trials for sometime. Luckily there is some movement within the industry to address this, much of which is coming from pharmaceutical companies themselves. Additional post-approval studies are costly and hurt the entire healthcare system in the long run. There is a lot to do and addressing it is more complicated than it appears...but it is certainly vital.
Stephen
p.s. I would check the validity on a so-called population control effort involving women being tricked into tubal ligation. The source you cited seems less than substantial. Please let me know if I am in the dark on this one.
Help for women on clinical trials issues...
Two thoughts. First, women need a permanent advocate within the federal health agencies to ensure that women are appropriately studied and that their unique health needs receive the careful, focused attention they deserve. There's an effort underway now to do this:
http://www.womenshealthresearch.org/site/PageServer?pagename=policy_main
Second, women need resources to help them understand what participating in medical research entails and what the benefits are to them and others. There's a public education campaign called "Some Things Only a Woman Can Do," which has resources for women, including specialized materials for older women, African Americans, and Hispanics (in Spanish): http://www.womancando.org/
statins and women
Evidence for Caution: statins and women
http://www.whp-apsf.ca/en/index.html
Are lipid lowering guidelines evidence based?
John Abramson, Harvard and James Wright, University of British Columbia and member of the Cochrane Collaboration. Answer: no
http://overdosedamerica.com/articles.php#24
Pimping ezetimibe
http://www.procor.org/discussion/displaymsg.asp?ref=1586&cate=ProCOR+Dialogue&parent=1561
Where were the doctors?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022908HA.shtml
Thousands of women who were, defacto ab rats for statin pharma, prescribed these drugs, or enrolled in after-market clinical trials without our consent or knowledge of what these drugs could do, are still recovering. Where were our doctors, asks Maggie Mahar, and we echo her. Where were our doctors, who have taken vows to act in OUR interests, not the interests of industry, or sadly, in their own interests, in far too many cases.
