REPRINTED FROM: by Jeannette Wolfe, MD on March 14, 2013 Sex and Gender Competency Essential For Emergency Departments Does your next patient have a Y chromosome? The answer could impact the diagnosis more than you realize. As you walk to the parking lot with your mind still buzzing after a busy shift, you consciously sort [...]
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Reprinted from the New York Times Well Blog [1/28/13) by Roni Caryn Rabin Most sleeping pills are designed to knock you out for eight hours. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was evaluating a new short-acting pill for people to take when they wake up in the middle of the night, agency scientists wanted [...]
Read More Pharmacology, substance abuse, SWHR, Women's HealthBlaustein 153 (6): 2539 E-mail: [email protected]. NEWS & VIEWS Beginning with papers submitted as of July 1, 2012, the methods sections of manuscripts submitted to Endocrinology must indicate the sex of animals used, or in the case of primary cells or cultures, the sex of animal from which they were derived. Although not required, [...]
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