Friday, March 19, 2010

Pushed to the margins again


Some medical studies exclude gays and lesbians for no apparent reason.

"Some trials are restricted to heterosexual patients because of the nature of the study, such as how HIV spreads between heterosexual partners. But the researchers also found trials where there is no clear need to exclude lesbians and gay men, including a clinical trial of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder."

Here's a related survey by The New England Journal of Medicine full of research data for the more technical among you.

Here's a round-up by salon.com.





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