Pregnant women, long excluded from drug trials, are back in the spotlight

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Pregnant bodies undergo a dramatic transformation. Making room for a growing fetus, the hormones rage, blood flow surges and organs shift. Even the brain isn’t spared as cortical gray matter thins away.

These physiological shifts can impact how drugs behave in the human body. But the…