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Note: mice. Vasanthakumar, A., Chisanga, D., Blume, J. et al. Sex-specific adipose tissue imprinting of regulatory T cells. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2040-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2040-3 (paywalled) Article about paper: Sex-specific traits of the...

Hi all, Please consider completing this research survey from Marta Encefalomielitis Miálgica on Facebook's son : Hello! I am a fourth-year student at the University of Aberdeen studying a joint honours degree in International Relations-Sociology. I am currently doing my Bachelor's...

'Women have been woefully neglected': does medical science have a gender problem?

Source: Psychology of Men & Masculinity Preprint Date: April 30, 2019 URL: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/17973 'The real me shining through M.E.': Visualizing masculinity and identity threat in men with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome using photovoice and IPA...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma_Renstroem/publication/333340403_Health_and_Disability_Physicians%27_gender_bias_in_the_diagnostic_assessment_of_medically_unexplained_symptoms_and_its_effect_on_patient-physician_relations/links/5ce7cdeca6fdccc9ddca7ebf/Health-and-Disability-Physicians-ge...

full blog here http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/millionsmissing-gender-bias-adds-to-the-burden-of-disease/

Paywalled at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2019.1595694 Sci Hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/14680777.2019.1595694

https://www.meaction.net/2019/04/12/toxic-masculinity-made-my-me-much-more-punishing/

According to the Women’s Health Advisor from Weill Cornell Medicine: Starting at age 40, a woman’s heart health begins to decline. The risk rises with age and accelerates after menopause. After age 75, a woman’s risk of heart attack is higher than a man’s. In reality, a woman’s heart attack...

Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment https://academic.oup.com/jpepsy/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104/5273626?redirectedFrom=fulltext Journal of Pediatric Psychology, jsy104, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104 Brian D Earp et al, Published: 04 January 2019 (Paywall)...

From the press release: https://mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/men-and-women-remember-pain-differently-293050 Based on this article: Male-Specific Conditioned Pain Hypersensitivity in Mice and Humans Loren J. Martin et al, Published: January 10, 2019...

"What Ails a Woman’s Heart. The more we look, the more we find sex differences in cardiovascular disease." by Claudia Wallis, Scientific American Jan 2019 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-ails-a-womans-heart/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/541046/women-suffer-worse-migraines-men-now-scientists-think-they-know-why

Professor emeritus Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen from the Department of Health Management and Health Economics has written a blogpost in a medical newspaper where he draw parallels between gender dystrophy and ME as fashion illnesses. I post this mostly for its oddity - but feel genuinely sorry for...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/27/597159133/how-bad-medicine-dismisses-and-misdiagnoses-womens-symptoms?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social As she began to research her own condition, Dusenbery realized how lucky she was to have been diagnosed...

https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/doctors-are-increasingly-pushing-mindfulness-on-chronic-pain-patients.html [The critique can also apply to male patients] -- -- #ChronicPain #chronicillness

The author has ME. " 6 February 2018 — 11:00pm As recently as 1921, MS (multiple sclerosis) was erroneously considered more common in men. By the late 1940s, a more even gender split was presumed. By 1960 it was posited that women might actually be slightly more prone to the condition. With the...

I'm copying some text here from the other site - it took me a long time to find it so I don't want to lose it again! "Are men and women really that different in CFS? Yes. About 40-50% of all the metabolites that we measure in our method have a different normal concentration in males and...