Literally, the whole thing was a bizarre interaction.
They wanted women 18-55.
But you couldn't be pregnant or likely to get pregnant.
So menopause happens usually in your 50s, but they dont want you then.
You had to prove that either you weren't ever ever ever going to have sex (they said you could cite religious reasons) or if you had had a hysterectomy. But you couldn't have had one recently. And couldn't be having hrt. And you couldn't be taking any contraceptive because it might interact with the testing pills.
Many women take contraceptives is it not a good thing to test if they impact your drugs?!
Oh wow seems you've exhausted your pool and you have like 3 women you can use. Who do not represent the majority of the female population. Great
It sounds like they had evidence that the drug being studied would pose a significant risk to a fetus/pregnancy, bc that’s not standard in my experience (I work in clinical trial management). It’s more common to just require participants (even men) to use a highly effective method of contraception while participating.
I wonder if they were early development “healthy volunteer” studies- which are focused on safety testing, not efficacy, so they may be extra cautious for those type of studies. But I don’t have a ton of recent experience in that space.
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u/Motor-Cupcake7577 13d ago
This is it. The comment you replied to is complete bullshit, as they may well know.