Females still an afterthought in research

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 10:50 in Health & Medicine

COVID-19 impacts men more seriously than women, critical information that resulted from research examining how the virus progresses differently based on sex. But including sex as a variable in scientific research has been historically rare, leading to  dangerous gaps in understanding how diseases, drugs and vaccines impact men and women differently. A new Northwestern Medicine study, published […]

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