Gender health gap: Australian medical research ignoring drugs’ side effects in women

Women are being ignored in medical trials and reports, according to a report which calls for more Australian medical research to include gender-specific data.

Failing to account for the different effects a drug may have on men and women compromises quality of care for women, according to the report published in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday.

“Historically and consistently across a broad range of health domains, data have been collected from men and generalised to women,” the authors of Sex and Gender in Health Research: Updating Policy to Reflect Evidence wrote.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/25/gender-health-gap-australian-medical-research-ignoring-drugs-side-effects-in-women

A new report has found women are being ignored in medical trials, arguing the Australia government needs to ensure sex and gender differences are included in future research.


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