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Women have historically faced barriers to receiving adequate medical treatment, from the long legacy of doctors dismissing women’s symptoms as “all in their heads” or as simply “hysteria,” to the reality that most research has been done on men’s bodies. Congress only mandated that women be included in studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1993 , and even after that, science has been slow to implement changes .
That was over 30 years ago, and the fact that the sexes are still treated differently in the medical setting still holds true—and a new review digs into exactly how. The paper, published in PLOS One…
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