There are plenty of pregnant women getting a prescription, more do get them as not. Not only by doctors but also by midwife's, hospitals, etc.
There is no med in the world (my world) where is not written to if it will harm the mother and/or child (it always does but sometimes there are no other options.)
It is the first time I hear meds work less with women but it does not surprise me (nothing works with me but not because of my hormone level).
Should we test on pregnant women?
No!
We already test enough on animals and humans and the outcome is seldom satisfying (500 people is also not a guarantee if it's safe).
At the moment there is no other way as giving a certain med to a pregnant woman and she agrees, it is a test already.
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At the moment, prescriptions are generally made based on assumptions that are not tested. Which may or may not be true... The tests were usually done on healthy young male humans... With the assumption that it would be the same across the population. However, there is growing evidence that that is possibly not the case.
Anyway, with respect to the 500 people statement, 500 is an okay size (more is better, but this is difficult in non physics fields). This is handled by statistical analysis (whether or not this has been applied properly is a different question). Apologies if the following is already familiar to you, I'm not sure what your background is!
Scientific testing is done by the rejection of a null hypothesis, there can never be a guarantee. There can only be the acceptance of rejection of a null hypothesis (that there is significant signal one way or another) compared to pure chance. This acceptance or rejection also comes with a statistical confidence of being correct or incorrect. So if you reject... You still have a chance for incorrectly rejecting when you should have accepted and vice versa. This is the importance for repeated studies and trials... As the likelihood for the incorrect reject/accept goes down with more studies. This is why it is always possible to find a study that supports a point of view... But much more difficult to find multiple studies (in relation to the total studies) if your point of view is not likely to be correct.
Apologies again if you already knew this stuff, but I wasn't sure... And I wouldn't start at the mathematical immediately!
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Thanks for your long answer. You made me wiser. If mostly young men are tested the tests are not useful.
I assume doctors registrate the results of meds somewhere too or only in cases of?
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I think they probably take note of it... I know that some countries have a self-reporting register... however, the data is too biased and uncontrolled to be of much use. Unfortunately, not all members of the public realise this... and it leads to cherry picking of the public data as "proof".
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