Sex, Drugs, And Singing Ovaries
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When Teresa Woodruff started working for a biotech company fresh out of graduate school, her employer revealed that the first studies for a new heart attack treatment had been performed on 50,000 men. “And so I kinda raised my hand and said, ‘That’s interesting. Where are all the women?” Today, Teresa is an expert in ovarian biology and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University in Chicago. We ask her why so many prescription drugs were tested only on men for so many decades, what that’s meant for women’s health, and what’s changed.
Plus, Teresa tells us about Repropedia, her encyclopedia for reproductive health, and “A New You, That's Who” (think “Schoolhouse Rock!” but instead of conjunctions, it's about puberty.)
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| 1:02.3 | Our guest this week has spent a lot of time thinking about sex, drugs, and singing ovaries. |
| 1:06.2 | Her work has focused on trying to figure out two big questions. |
| 1:10.0 | Why is so much medicine only tested on men? |
| 1:12.5 | And how does that affect the health of women? |
| 1:16.8 | Teresa Woodruff has a lab with her name on it at Northwestern University. |
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| 1:21.6 | She's founder of the Women's Health Research Institute. She also coined a whole field of study called OncoFertility that studies the intersection of cancer and fertility. |
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