Women are still excluded from important medical research

Women are diagnosed on average four years later than men across more than 770 diseases. Evvy, an AI precision medicine platform for women, notes that June 10 was Equal Research Day in the United States, adding that women weren’t required in U.S. clinical research until June 10, 1993. Today, older adults, pregnant and lactating women, people from the LGBTQIA+ community and people with disabilities remain underrepresented and are often excluded from clinical research. The first known clinical trial was published in 1747, while the first vaccine for any disease was developed in 1796 for smallpox.