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Research on Rare Women’s Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 5th, 2007
For many decades, medical research studies focused primarily on men and the results of countless studies were then applied to women. But we now know that the biological sex and gender differences between men and women are more than skin deep. Beginning in 1990, the Society for Women’s Health Research, a Washington, D.C., based advocacy organization, conveyed to a national audience the need for including women in biomedical research studies. Today, research on women is robust.
Biomedical research can make an enormous difference in the lives of women. Take Dr. Elizabeth Petri Henske, M.D., the recipient of the 2007 Society for Women’s Health Research Medtronic Prize for...
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