Author: Sonia Tagliareni Sonia Tagliareni is a writer and researcher for DrugRehab.com. She started her professional writing career in 2012 and has written for the finance, engineering, lifestyle and entertainment industry. Sonia holds a bachelor’s degree from the Florida Institute of Technology. Addiction in Men vs. Women: How Gender Can Affect Substance Abuse Men and […]
addiction, men, prescription drugs, Sex and Gender Medicine, substance abuse, Women
Are Women Appropriately and Adequately Included in Clinical Trials of Moxifloxacin? Elisa Chilet-Rosell, PhD,1 Ma Teresa Ruiz-Cantero,1,2 and Ma Angeles Pardo, MSc11Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.2CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain. [email protected] ABSTRACT Purpose: To determine the inclusion of women and the sex-stratification of results in moxifloxacin Clinical Trials (CTs), […]
Clinical trials, medication, Pharmacology, prescription drugs
Women and Prescription Medications: An Overview About 18 women die every day of a prescription painkiller overdose in the US, more than 6,600 deaths in 2010. Prescription painkiller overdoses are an under-recognized and growing problem for women. Although men are still more likely to die of prescription painkiller overdoses (more than 10,000 deaths in 2010), […]
Emergency Medicine, medication, Mental Health, pain, prescription drugs, Sleep
In response to a review of clinical trials on drug bioequivalence, Larry Cahill , PhD, a Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, at the University of California/Irvine, argues that the exclusive reliance on testing generic drugs in males in indefensible. Turns out “inactive” ingredients can produce very different- even opposite- reactions to the effectiveness of the […]
Clinical trials, Medications, prescription drugs
