Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 58 minutes ago

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Before women were allowed into clinical trials, researchers had a workaround, they identified us as “small men.” FemTech Canada founder Rachel Bartholomew tells Elizabeth Naumovski that women’s hormones were treated as too unpredictable and too complex to study, and we are still living with the results: products and medications that were never tested on the bodies using them.

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