In her groundbreaking book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, Maya Dusenbery writes: “While their numbers have increased since the early nineties, when federal law began requiring women and racial minorities to be included in research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we are still feeling the legacy of years of foundational research conducted on men, with the assumption that it could be extrapolated to women.” Dusenbery exposed this crisis in the context of people with autoimmune conditions, two-thirds
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