Dismissed symptoms, misdiagnoses, and exclusion from clinical trials put female patients at risk. Here, the disturbing truth about gender bias in medicine—and how to get the first-rate care you deserve.
"The longtime lack of women in clinical trials continues to do damage. Over the past 2 decades, for instance, numerous drugs and medical devices have been pulled from the market because they turned out to have greater adverse effects on women than on men. One study found that 8 of the 10 treatments withdrawn between 1997 and 2000 fit that description."
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