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Your Prescription May Be Sexist

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Men and women don't look the same, and their bodies don't function the same way either. If men and women are physically and physiologically different, then why have the majority of drugs currently on the market been tested only on men?

Read on to learn more about gender differences in medicine, and about the long-term effects of excluding women from drug testing.

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10) FDA: Cut Ambien Dosage for Women. abcnews.go.com. Retrieved March 9, 2016. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-recommends-slashing-sleeping-pill-dosage-half-women/story?id=18182165           

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