Homophobic Policy Distorts The Results
The fact that gays and lesbians are excluded from medical studies is not only unethical but dangerous shows a recent survey.
U.S. broadcaster CBC News found that of the United States in clinical trials elimination gays and lesbians.
This fact was discovered biologist market data from cancer studies.
It appears that sexual orientation was one of the factors on which people were not included in clinical trials.
A review of over 80 thousand The United States took place in the clinical studies published in the portal salon.com, studies without a significant percentage of homosexuals.
The magazine of The New England Journal of Medicine published the analysis of just 243 medical examinations revealed 37 cases (15 percent) When they were not included in healthy homosexuals. Industries and regions of the United States-funded research – free of gays and lesbians – are not included and usually healthy but over 65 years of age.
Adds that in order to receive public funding for medical research, it is necessary to examine how drugs can affect all – regardless of gender, race or nationality – people.
Sometimes the medical examination is logical to exclude certain groups. For example, studying the effects of specific hormones in elderly women not head logical as these drugs affect men. However, the question of whether it is necessary not to not white lesbian or bisexual women.
Portal salon.com argued that the exclusion of homosexuals – if not a reasoned scientific explained – not for 2 reasons. First, it is blatant discrimination and someone’s political views the transfer of scientific field. Second, history has shown that such clinical practices in the application failed.
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