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One reason may be that the field of gender-based medicine, which takes into account the differences between men and women in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, has been slow to catch on, especially in the pharmaceutical industry. Before the 1990s, women were largely excluded from clinical drug trials...
But researchers say the field has not taken the next step: tailoring treatments according to gender-specific data. In many cases, notably with statins, they say the data are missing or have not been properly analyzed.
The Jupiter TrialGrundy says he now has the evidence he's been waiting for. In a paper published in February in the journal Circulation, researchers analyzed data on women who took part in the Jupiter trial, a large, industry-funded study that sought to compare the effectiveness of the statin...
Meanwhile, women on Crestor were more likely to develop diabetes compared with those getting a placebo - a result not seen in men. And because the trial lasted only 1.9 years on average, researchers say the full magnitude of the side effects may not have been captured.
Cassandra's results came back first, because of the fact that, genetically, she's more likely to remember to mail stuff. We were both shocked at the amount of information contained in her spit, which heretofore had revealed only how recently she brushed. Her spit knew stuff about her she...