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Editor's note
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For years, women were excluded from clinical trials as it was thought their monthly cycles would complicate results. This meant the treatments prescribed to women had never been tested for them. As Deb Colville writes in the first article of our series on Gender Medicine: “Women were excluded because they are different, but the results were applied to them because they are nearly the same.”
Women and men are different in many ways, but doctors and researchers have only recently started applying a gender lens to treatment and diagnosis – and there’s a long way to go. Today’s second article outlines
how women have evolved to have stronger immune systems, and viruses like the flu see men as the weaker sex. But this has come with downsides for women, in that more are likely to suffer autoimmune disease. Our six articles this week will look at how gender differences impact health start from the womb and go on to manifest themselves in the areas of mental health, immunity, heart disease and bone health.
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Sasha Petrova
Deputy Editor, Health + Medicine
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Top story
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For a long time, medication dosages were adjusted for patient size and women were simply ‘small men’.
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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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Health + Medicine
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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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Chris Rudge, University of Sydney
There's a fierce debate about whether it's ethical for mental health professionals to diagnose politicians they haven't personally examined.
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Joan Henderson, University of Sydney
A plan to fine hospitals for avoidable hospitalisations and pay GPs to prevent them has many issues. The main problem is that it's impossible to measure the outcomes of health care in Australia.
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Science + Technology
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Jon Cornwall, Victoria University of Wellington
Once it's online, our healthcare data could be used for research long after we're gone.
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Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology
Locals laws and norms are breaking up the internet as we know it.
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Business + Economy
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Chris Doucouliagos, Deakin University
Inequality actually restricts people from earning more, educating themselves and becoming entrepreneurs.
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Thomas Clarke, University of Technology Sydney
The Australian public may be vulnerable to crime and terrorism directly funded through the Australian banking system.
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Politics + Society
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George Williams, UNSW; Daniel Reynolds, UNSW
Australia is the only democratic nation in the world without a national charter of rights or similar.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Turnbull goes into Monday's special Liberal meeting on same-sex marriage facing a situation where there is no good option, in political terms, for dealing with the deep schism in the party.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra; Deep Saini, University of Canberra
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
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Asher Hirsch, Monash University
Transcripts of a conversation between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull reveal Australia's refugee swap deal with the US may come to nothing.
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Jack Anderson, University of Melbourne
Lack of trust between Australia's cricketers and the game's governing body delayed negotiations in their protracted pay dispute. This relationship will need to be rebuilt in the coming months.
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Cities
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Carolyn Whitzman, University of Melbourne
While many talk about 30-minute cities, some aim for residents to be able to get to most services within 20 minutes. But cities like Melbourne have an awful lot of work to do to achieve their goal.
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Arts + Culture
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Justine M. Philip, University of New England
In Indigenous culture, dingoes were prized as companions, garments and hunting aids. Europeans later tried to tame dingoes as 'pets' but their wild nature has prevailed.
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Environment + Energy
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Steven Cork, Australian National University; Kate Auty, University of Melbourne
Australia is good at 'hard hat' responses to crises such as cyclones. But a new environmental declaration on the Pacific Islands points out that the best approach is more well-rounded and subtle.
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Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
Three years ago The Australian newspaper launched a broadside at the Bureau of Meteorology. But when it did it again this week, it seemed to get less traction from the top echelons of government.
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