The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
We know the difference
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
We know the difference
Depression has a widespread and devastating impact on health. It is associated with disturbances in the endocrine, cardiovascular and immune systems as well as affecting bone health. The risk of coronary artery disease is three times higher among men with a diagnosis of depression; interestingly, there is no increased risk for women.
One of the very first questions I get when I’m learning about the implications of the sex differences between men and women is, “Why are we only just learning about this now?”
Because, for much of the time that we’ve been doing real medical research, we haven’t studied women, we’ve studied only men. But why?
Bad Breath is such a common complaint that there are actually breath clinics springing up up around the country that specialize in treating this problem. In fact, it has been estimated that about 25 million Americans have a problem with bd breath at some point in their lives.