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Should medicine be gendered?

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Number) 335 (Date) May2019
Medium (Periodical) BBC Science Focus.
Classif 500 BBC
Subject Science and technology
Page 72 - 77
Authors Crompton, Simon
Contents

Men and women have completely different biologies, and yet doctors prescribe the same drugs and doses to everyone regardless of sex. The results can be damaging, even deadly. Is it time that medicine treated men and women differently?

Keywords
Drug dosage     Gender differences     Mens health     Womens health