Switzerland's first professor of gender medicine explains how this new field saves lives

Name: Switzerland's first professor of gender medicine explains how this new field saves lives
Uploaded: 2025-04-07T15:54:59.000Z
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Published Apr 07, 2025

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Gender medicine studies how sex and gender-based differences affect people’s health with the aim of improving patient care and outcomes and developing more effective treatments. Gender medicine aims to correct a large data gap in medicine. Women spend 25% more of their lives in poor health than men while having a longer life expectancy.