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Podcast: The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
Episode: Women Are Not Small Men | Aagya Marthur, Dr. Sophia Yen, Alison Wyatt
Description: ​There is a gap in America’s knowledge of women’s health. This is no surprise because it wasn’t until 1993 that Congress wrote an NIH inclusion policy into Federal law that encouraged women and minorities as subjects in clinical research. Much of what is considered ‘health standards’ are largely skewed towards men because of the years when women went unstudied. Even today, there remains gender inequality in healthcare as we face wide gaps in research and treatment ability for areas unique to women.​By elevating the importance of women’s health, we can deliver better, more inclusive data a...