This chapter explores the importance of gender-specific medicine within the context of
pharmaceutical development and global health care. It analyzes the challenges that the …

This chapter explores gender-specific medicine within the context of pharmaceutical
development and global health care. It analyzes the challenges that the pharmaceutical …

Gender-specific medicine is a new discipline. It has made significant progress over the last
couple of decades, which has the potential to transform not only medicine but also the …

Sex and gender play a pivotal role in health and disease. Differences can be identified in
symptoms, biomarkers, lifetime experiences of diseases, incidence, prevalence, therapeutic …

Therapeutics has steadily evolved over the last two decades, from a broad system designed
to target multiple patients with one management approach to a personalized model that …

In 2013 a settlement for $7 million was reached on behalf of an accomplished, productive,
female healthcare practitioner who claimed discrimination by a male colleague. 1, 2 A senior …

The premise of individualized or personalized medicine is that the intervention is tailored to
the individual. Individualized therapy will accommodate differences in body size, differences …

Personalised medication is one of the ultimate goals of modern medicine although it's still
some way off. But the promise of gender-specific medicines means we may soon be halfway …

Gender medicine investigates the relationship between gender and effectiveness of
diagnosis and therapies in the treatment of diseases. Sex and gender affect a broad range …

Biological sex and gender have a tremendous impact on the efficacy and safety of
pharmacological interventions in virtually every disease state. This book presents a …