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Pregnant women deserve better

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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

  2. Baylis, F. & Kaposy, C. J. Obstet. Gynaecol. Can. 32, 473–476 (2010).

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  1. Françoise Baylis is in the departments of bioethics, philosophy and obstetrics and gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3P7, Canada. francoise.baylis@dal.ca,

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See related Opinions on page 688 and page 690, and Editorial on page 665 .

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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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