Ignoring women’s health shouldn’t be an option

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Developing therapies for conditions that predominantly affect women is a neglected, but enormous, opportunity

Pharmaceutical and medical science has a massive knowledge gap around women’s health. As outlined in a special collection of Chemistry World  articles, conditions that only affect women, or affect them very differently to men, have been systematically ignored or dismissed for most of medical history. And while that is changing, slowly, there is still a long way to go.