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Old 08/10/2004, 08:25 AM
Randy Holmes-Farley Randy Holmes-Farley is offline
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I'm not permitted to make any public comments on our clinical trials (and don't know the precise answer in our case anyway), but often companies run the early phases of clinical trials on men only to avoid any concerns about possible harm to fetuses of women that may be pregnant. Additionally, lots of pregnancies go bad for unknown reasons. If that happens in a small clinical trial, the drug may get blamed even if it had nothing to do with it.
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