In This Case: Sex & Gender Differences in Pain By Tracy Madsen, MD and Alyson McGregor, MD Overview: Women and men experience pain differently as a result of both biologic and physiologic differences as well as psychosocial influences on the perception and expression of pain. Sex differences in the treatment of pain have been [...]
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Reprinted From Huffington PostBy Catherine Pearson, HuffPost Reporter Gender Medicine: Why We Need To Focus On How Women vs. Men Get Sick Posted: 03/27/2013 2:25 pm EDT. We live in a world where robots help perform surgery and a baby born with AIDS has been functionally cured, but doctors still have a lot to learn [...]
Read More Autoimmune, Cancer, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Hepatology, Osteoporosis, PharmacologyGender medicine: a task for the third millennium Baggio G, Corsini A, Floreani A, Giannini S, Zagonel V Abstract Gender-specific medicine is the study of how diseases differ between men and women in terms of prevention, clinical signs, therapeutic approach, prognosis, psychological and social impact. It is a neglected dimension of medicine. In this review [...]
Read More Cancer, Cardiology, Nephrology, Osteoporosis, PharmacologyHow and Why Sex Differences Affect Your Health Editors: Phyllis Greenberger, M.S.W., Jennifer Wider, M.D. [Society for Women's Health Research] Women and men are different. Unfortunately, doctors, medical researchers, and health care providers have not always recognized how these differences can affect health. The result has been that women sometimes receive inappropriate medical care. The [...]
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