Gender Medicine Gap explores how sex and gender influence diagnosis, treatment, research, and recovery. Read accessible, evidence-based health stories that uncover what gets overlooked—and what better care can look like.
New perspectives on gender, health, and the science of care.
Women face a significantly higher incidence and severity of idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury due to metabolic enzyme variability and historical trial exclusion. This article examines the physiological mechanisms, diagnostic delays, and necessary regulatory corrections.
Women using semaglutide or tirzepatide achieve significant weight loss but encounter gastrointestinal adverse events at disproportionately higher frequencies than men. This post reviews evidence linking estrogen signaling to nausea sensitivity, trial versus real-world data discrepancies, and titration adjustments.
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Introduction The medical community has long recognized that sex and gender influence disease presentation, progression, and treatment response. While women ofte...
Summary Recent evidence strengthens a persistent finding: women are less likely than men to have their pain fully recognized, documented, and treated in acute c...
Why the signal matters now Over the past two years regulators and global health bodies have moved from urging sex‑aware research to spelling out concrete expect...
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Why the topic matters now Federal agencies, journals, and clinical investigators are increasingly asking that sex be treated as a key biological variable in res...
Why timing inside a woman's body matters for medicine Research and regulation increasingly recognize that sex matters in medicine, but most attention compares m...
Why the signal matters now Over the past two years regulators and global health bodies have moved from urging sex‑aware research to spelling out concrete expect...
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From underdiagnosis to biased studies, we examine the places where medicine still misses people.
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