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Gender Specific Medicine
this isn’t just about cancer but how women react differently than men to drugs and other conditions….for instance…
for women…..avoid Erythromycin..it causes some women to have heartbeat abnormalites. Our hearts take longer to relax after each beat than men’s do, and erythromycin lengthens that interval.
As for pain drugs…this is interesting…..
They don’t work well for men, but pain drugs called kappa-opioids, such as Nubain or Stadol, are proven to bring great releif towomen in moderate and severe pain after surgery, and kappa-opiods aren’t addictive.
And….anesthesia during surgery is less effective on women..in fact, we’re 3 times as likely as men to awaken early.
Check out the site….really interesting
http://partnership.hs.columbia.edu/publications.html