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Medical science is in fact terribly biased against women because the standard baseline is almost always a typical male body
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Not true. Most studies nowadays include male & female participants - and more research focuses on exclusively female than exclusively male issues
The real bias is against normal human beings. Nursing/medical students and medical professionals are vastly overrepresented amongst study participants - and young people. These groups of people are much healthier than the average human being. Steps have been taken to address this too, but it is slow going.