Scientists know biological sex matters

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www.the-scientist.com/notebook/why-is-cancer-more-common-in-men-than-in-women--65640
''Understanding sex differences in cell biology more generally will be key to developing better treatments for cancer, says Christine Disteche, a geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle who serves on the council of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences. She notes that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is looking in this direction. “Now there is a big push to add on studies comparing male and female” across biomedical research, she says.

Rubin says he thinks it’s about time, noting that clinical trials that lump the two sexes together will fail to find optimal treatments for either. “In an era where people love to talk about personalized medicine, [the fact] that personalizing to a person’s sex has not been part of that conversation is incredible to me.”

Thanks for sharing. Here's another one from last month.

www.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-friends/supplements/the-heart-attack-gender-gap

the research follows a report from the British Heart Foundation that found a failure to treat women and men equally has led to more than 8,000 women in England and Wales dying needlessly from heart attacks over the past decade. A misperception that a heart attack is a man’s disease, and unconscious biases in the delivery of healthcare, are leading to delayed treatment and poorer survival chances for women who suffer heart attacks.

Dr Lee says: “By addressing a biological difference between men and women, we’ve successfully improved the test to detect more women who’ve had a heart attack. These women would otherwise be misdiagnosed.

“But it’s now important that this blood test, with its specific measures for men and women, is used to guide treatment and that we address these disparities in the care of men and women with heart attack. Women everywhere should benefit from improved heart attack diagnosis.”

This is fucking transphobic I tell you. How DARE they?