Key points from article :
Women’s bodies are different to men’s from cellular level onwards.
But medical model is based on knowledge gleaned from male cells, male animals and male humans.
It all started when they excluded women of childbearing age from clinical trials to protect them.
Effectively took sex differences, menstrual cycles and hormone surges out of the picture.
It made work faster, easier and cheaper for researchers and pharmaceutical industry.
Symptoms, drug actions inside their bodies and body’s response to drugs are different in women.
Even available data on Covid-19 indicates that it is a disease that affects men and women differently.
