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Article: Ethicists: Include pregnant women in national childrens' study.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- July 30, 2009
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An ambitious new national study that aims to follow children from conception through adulthood will miss a golden opportunity to gather data on the most underrepresented population in clinical research – pregnant women, say leading ethicists at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (see also Duke University Medical Center).
There's still time, however, to make small but crucial cost-effective changes that could yield valuable information for women's health from The National Children's Study.
"This is an ideal chance to study women during and following pregnancy, as well as the babies they will bear," says Anne ...