How medical research is failing women
For years, the process for developing and testing new drugs has focused disproportionately on male bodies — to the detriment of female patients.
Female breasts were not included in the curriculum at medical schools until the 2010s.
Kate Womersley was a medical student at Cambridge university, nervously dissecting her first cadaver, when she noticed an odd lacuna in her anatomy course handbook: there was no mention of breasts.
Puzzlement swiftly turned to anger. Not until 2016, a year after she and a female classmate first raised concerns, were their entreaties heeded and the curriculum adjusted.
Financial Times
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