Medications are intended to help, but women may be experiencing ill-effects from many of them because of gender imbalances during the testing process, according to a new study.
Researchers found that drug dosages have typically been set using data collected from clinical trials conducted primarily on men, leaving many women overmedicated or dealing with side-effects.
The study, from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, was published in the journal Biology of Sex Differences.
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