As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, my English honors professor (head of NOW in Wisconsin, don't ya know) mocked me because I said that there were differences between men and women beyond mere plumbing. "Peggy; you sound like Hugh Hefner," she sneered.
Now, xxxx years later, I am vindicated!
Beyond the tired cliches and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realized.
It turns out that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different from the approach used for men.
These discoveries are part of a quiet but revolutionary change infiltrating U.S. medicine as a growing number of scientists realize there's more to women's health than just the anatomy that makes them female, and that the same diseases often affect men and women in different ways.
"Women are different than men, not only psychologically (but) physiologically, and I think we need to understand those differences," says Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Thanks for the link!
Posted by: David Strom | Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 07:21 PM