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Missing women from drug trials

Why are participants in drug trials often all men? What difference might this make to our understanding of medicine and science? Tim Harford speaks to Caroline Criado-Perez about her new book 鈥業nvisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.鈥�

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