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Monday, September 27, 2004The gender-based medicine movement isn't an effort to diminish the importance of breast cancer, but is meant to emphasize that ''we have more than one body part, folks. Up until now . . . that awareness just hasn't been there,'' said Sherry Marts of the Society for Women's Health Research. The group seeks to expand the definition of women's health beyond breast and reproductive health, what some call ''bikini medicine.'' That is a welcome change. Far more women suffer from diseases that affect their non-reproductive organs and systems. But in fairness, it's the activists and the media attention they get that have skewed the public perception that the major health problems for women are limited to their sex organs. And it's not unreasonable to break research results down by gender. Women's bodies do operate in a different hormonal milieu than men's. Controlling for those differences is just good science. posted by Sydney on 9/27/2004 07:41:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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