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"Until the 1990s, scientists frequently excluded women from medical research, including drug studies."
Evidently, any drug testing was done soley on Rats (Men). Then you find only a tiny fraction of the Cancer budget is directed to men's cancers, the vast bulk being spent on women's problems.
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I took an introductory medicine course last year, and the doctor/professor spoke exactly to this subject, she said : 'Until recently, medical testing was conducted solely on young, healthy adults and excluded anyone who was either pregneant, about to become pregneant, or could possibly become pregneant.' I'm paraphrasing of course, but her point was that testing was done solely on men not becuase the researchers weren't interested in helping women but that it was considered ethically and morally wrong to experiment and risk womens reproductive capabilities.
The pressure to research and treat womens illnesses has changed this.
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A far better article to read (more enlightening, informative and male-friendly) is Dr Andrew Kadar's "The Sex Bias Myth in Medicine" which appeared in the Aug '94 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Yes, it's an old article, but it remains relevant and valuable.
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