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Editor's note
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It’s been a relatively recent discovery in medicine that gender matters when it comes to how various ailments and their treatments affect the sexes.
Historically men were the exclusive models
for clinical trials and for anatomy studies. But women aren’t just small men, and we’re starting to learn more about just how different we are – in terms of our development, immune systems, psychology, and in
how we’re perceived by clinicians.
In this six part package on gender medicine we explore some of the greatest disparities in health between the sexes.
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Sasha Petrova
Deputy Editor, Health + Medicine
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Top story
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The importance of heart health in women has for many years been invisible.
tacit requiem (joanneQEscober )/Flickr
Patricia Davidson, Johns Hopkins University
Heart disease has long been considered a man's condition. Our ignorance of its impact on women has led to gaps in outcomes for men and women suffering the same condition.
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Medicine and gender
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Gabrielle Belz, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute; Cyril Seillet, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Women have evolved to have stronger immunity than men. But this comes with downsides -
women are more likely to have autoimmune diseases due to their "reactive" immune systems.
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Jayashri Kulkarni, Monash University
Gender is important in defining susceptibility and exposure to a number of mental health risks. Gender can also explain differences in mental health outcomes.
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Paul Anderson, University of South Australia; Deepti Sharma, University of South Australia; Howard Morris, University of South Australia
Fracture risk is higher in older women than men, but in adolescence the reverse is true. These differences mean our approach to managing bone health for men and women changes across the ages.
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Deb Colville, Monash University
In medical training and practice, gender differences have at last become a vital part of diagnosis and treatment.
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Tina Bianco-Miotto, University of Adelaide; Claire Roberts, University of Adelaide
If something goes wrong in pregnancy, a boy baby is more likely to be born malnourished or stillborn than a girl. This may have an evolutionary basis.
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Featured jobs
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Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute — Melbourne, Victoria
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Central Queensland University — Rockhampton City, Queensland
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Monash University — Parkville, Victoria
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University of Melbourne — Parkville, Victoria
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