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virtually every medical discipline, there are unanswered questions pertaining to women’s health and well-being. Closing the gender gap in medical research may require more than simply including women in research studies, says Teresa Woodruff, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, recently launched by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Teresa Woodruff
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“Language areas of the brain are more active in girls,” said Doug Burman, a neuroscientist in the lab. “But even more surprisingly, boys and girls rely on different areas of the brain for processing language accurately.”Burman, James R. Booth, and Tali Bitan, now of the University of Haifa, reported their results in the March online [...]