How medicine mansplained women’s health

Unexplainable

Vox

Science, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Until 1993, many researchers excluded women from clinical drug trials, leaving doctors in the dark about how new treatments work in more than half the population. This is the story of why that happened, the women who fought to change it, and what we still don’t know about how sex and gender affect health. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this week's episode of Unexplainable comes from UC San Diego.
0:05.0	UC San Diego is working with artificial intelligence to try to get
0:08.6	closer to answering some enormous challenges.
0:11.7	Whether they're using AI to inform the development of complicated
0:15.2	cures or creating predictive models that could help fight wildfires,
0:19.5	researchers at UC San Diego want to help move us forward,
0:23.1	improve our communities, and shape our future.
0:25.6	You can learn more about how UC San Diego is advancing AI
0:29.3	at ucsd.edu slash AI.
0:47.8	It's unexplainable.
0:48.7	I'm no, I'm hasn't felt.
0:51.3	A few months ago, a woman came into the ER at Dr.
0:54.2	Alana Morris' hospital in Atlanta.
0:56.8	This young woman experienced some shortness of breath and some chest discomfort.
1:02.5	She had just given birth to her third child,
1:04.5	so the ER doctors assumed that was the issue.
1:07.2	Probably just, you know, she stressed from being a new mom and go home and
1:11.4	try to get some breath.
1:12.7	So the patient went home, but the problem didn't go away.
1:16.8	A few days later, she came back to the ER with the same issue, shortness of breath.
1:21.7	And so the doctors examined her heart.
1:24.2	She clearly had abnormal EKG and elevation of cardiac enzymes.
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