Women's Health
Specialist expertise and experience to address every stage of your women's health program.
Advancing endometriosis care through an innovation ecosystem
Endometriosis development is evolving. Explore how connected scientific, clinical and evidence strategies can help sponsors navigate an increasingly complex development landscape.
Immunotherapy beyond cancer
Expanding immunotherapies beyond oncology requires a different development playbook. Discover practical strategies to mitigate risk, improve patient retention, and accelerate clinical development in chronic disease populations.
Pregnant participants in clinical trials
Register today for our webinar on the considerations for including pregnant individuals in clinical trials. Learn about guidance in development by regulatory authorities to establish a framework for pregnancy safety studies.
Overcoming challenges with maternal vaccine trials
In this article from Pharmaphorum, Dinah Knotts, VP of Project Management in Vaccines and Infectious Diseases and Mitsu Rana, Senior Director of Project Management outline some of the challenges with maternal vaccine trials and how with careful planning and execution by researchers, these can be overcome throughout the trial process.
Breaking the silence: Understanding perinatal mood disorders
Postpartum depression affects 14 percent of women and is unique in that it can be a devastating disease to both mother and child. In addition, postpartum depression is associated with abnormal development, cognitive impairment, and psychopathology in the children. Among patients with postpartum depression, onset occurs before or during pregnancy in approximately 50 percent. This webinar recording helps to :
- Different conditions that are associated with perinatal period
- Therapies available
- Regulatory landscape
- Clinical trial considerations
Hot flashes, brain fog and the blues: Frontiers in menopause treatments
Hot flashes, brain fog and the blues: Frontiers in menopause treatments
Over the past few decades, women’s health has become a greater focus of both academic and pharmaceutical industry research and treatment development. However, treatment options for women going through menopause and post-menopause remain limited.
This webinar recording helps to:
- The different conditions that are associated with menopause
- Therapies available
Women's Health media contributions and blogs
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Blog: Advancing endometriosis care through an innovation ecosystem
Endometriosis development is evolving. Explore how connected scientific, clinical and evidence strategies can help sponsors navigate an increasingly complex development landscape.
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Media article: What’s holding back the gonorrhoea vaccine for women?
Despite decades of research, there is still no approved gonorrhoea vaccine. In this article, ICON experts explore the scientific, clinical and public health challenges that continue to shape vaccine development for women.
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Blog: More than awareness—taking action to address IPV as an SDOH in clinical trials
Explore the considerations for intimate partner violence as a social determinant of health and key actions to address IPV for clinical trial participants.
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Media article: Fights over Tylenol, SSRIs highlight the enduring lack of pregnant women in drug trials
Read the article to learn why the exclusion of pregnant women from clinical trials continues to fuel data gaps, misinformation, and missed opportunities for safer, more effective treatments.