Women's Pain Is Different From Men's—the Drugs Could Be Too

Women's Pain Is Different From Men's—the Drugs Could Be Too

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Men and women can’t feel each other’s pain. Literally. We have different biological pathways for chronic pain, which means pain-relieving drugs that work for one sex might fail in the other half of the population. So why don’t we have pain medicines designed just for men or women? The reason is simple: Because no one has looked for them. Drug development begins with studies on rats and mice, and until three years ago, almost all that research used only male animals.

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