Women and health scandals (Replay)
Many drugs intended for women have been at the center of health scandals.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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3rd and 4th generation pill, Mediator, Distilbene, Agréal, Levothyrox ... The news of recent decades has shown that many drugs intended for women have been at the center of health scandals.
In the eyes of the general public, the Mediator affair resonates like the pharmaceutical scandal of this decade.
But who knows that behind the thousands of victims of this antidiabetic drug used as an appetite suppressant, hides a large majority of women?
Publicity
How to better care for women?
How to better include and consider them in clinical trials?
Delphine Bauer & Ariane Puccini
, independent journalists, members of the
Youpress collective
, specialized in issues of women's rights and health.
Author of the book
Ill treatments.
Why are women poorly cared for?
published by Seuil
Dr Astrid Chevance
, psychiatrist and epidemiologist, specialist in the evaluation of therapies at CRESS, at the
Hôtel Dieu in Paris
Marine Martin
, president of the
APESAC association (Association of Assistance to Parents of Children Suffering from Anti-Convulsant Syndrome)
and whistleblower of Dépakine.
Since September 2019, expert patient on medication and pregnancy.
Author of the book
Depakine, the scandal I could not be silent
at Robert Laffont editions
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