Globally, men do not long live as long as women, and they exhibit riskier health behaviors, yet health funding focuses more heavily on women, according to a viewpoint in The Lancet. In making a case for greater research funding directed at gender specific causes of poor health among men, the authors point to the [...]
Read More clinical research, gender, men's healthBernard WeissDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY Abstract Males and females of virtually all species differ in how they respond to their environment. Because such differences exist in almost all biological realms, including disease patterns and therapeutic outcomes, they have evoked calls by various bodies to incorporate [...]
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Finally, a study to discern the causes for breast cancer and where research efforts should be focused. The Health of Women Study, or HOW Study, sponsored by the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation seeks to collect health-related information from a large participant pool over time to answer questions that researchers and the general public have [...]
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