Swissinfo journalists were awarded second place in the 2024/25 Semmelweis-Richter Journalism Award for their article on how sex and gender are often overlooked in drug development. The prize was awarded in the “Pharmacological Strategies and Innovation” category. In the article, Drugmakers are finally making medicine for women, Swissinfo journalist Jessica Davis Plüss highlights how medicine is often developed without women in mind, and the serious consequences for women’s health. Men still dominate many clinical trials for diseases that disproportionally affect women. Even when there is gender balance in studies, differences in the efficacy and safety for men and women are rarely considered in the approval and prescribing information for drugs. There’s now a movement, including in Switzerland, to change this, writes Davis Plüss in the article. Data journalist Pauline Turuban and picture editor Helen James – both members of Swissinfo’s editorial team – were also involved in the ...
