A series of three successive studies recently published in the journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology suggest that women are drastically over-prescribed dangerous opioids after C-sections. The studies build off each other to provide a complete picture of how women’s pain is less carefully regarded throughout the medical process than that of men.
In one of the studies, 720 C-section patients were followed after giving birth from six ...
continue reading...A new study finds that women are prescribed more medications than men, but are less likely than men to use those medications as prescribed, according to a Washington Post report.
Authors of the study suggest that situation might point to an inherent flaw in the way drugs are tested in the first place. Men tend to be over-represented in early-stage drug trials, so development of medications might not take adequate account of the different way that women’s bodies absorb and metabolize ...
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