Alyson McGregor : Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

Alyson McGregor·TEDxProvidence
Why medicine often has side effects for women
Summary
This was a really shocking story, especially for women.

Before medicines and drugs prescribed to us, of course, those are tested on cells in a laboratory. First, animal studies, and then clinical trials on human, a regulatory approval process, after those, doctors are available to prescribe to patients. It takes years and needs much money. However, those cells used in this laboratory are only male cells, the animals used in animals studies are also only male animals, and the clinical trials have been performed almost exclusively on men.

The speaker suggests that it can say that it’s based on only haft the population. She also said that she who an emergency medicine doctor were never taught that there were any differences between men and women. Thus medicine often has side effects for women. 80 percent of the drugs withdrawn from the market are due to side effects on women.

Women construct half the population.
Children are not just little adults.
Trance genders must have more complex DNA and cells.
New combination evidence of sex-determining seems to be founded currently.

The speaker suggests that asking your doctors whether the treatment you are receiving are specific to your sex and gender. They may not know the answer yet. However the conversation has begun. We have to know that our sex and gender matter for medicine having side effects.

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