Mystery over gender differences in lung cancer rates
Oestrogen could make women are more susceptible to lung cancer, speculate researchers.
Tag: Gender
10 or more sexual partners doubles cancer risk for women
The risk in men with the same number of partners is not as high more, study reports.
‘We are still not getting to the top’: Anger as female GPs ignored in honours
A GP says the numbers show organised medicine is 'still thinking in a misogynist fashion'.
Puberty-blocking linked with fewer suicides in transgender people
But only a small fraction of interested children receive the therapy, say researchers.
Female surgeons face fertility hazards in theatre
Radiation and anaesthetic gases pose potential reproductive risks, authors say.
Aussie doctors and journal in spat over equity
More than 35 doctors, co-led by Dr Jill Tomlinson, submitted a manuscript with just one word when the journal asked if there was equity in medicin…
4 ways women surgeons face workplace bias
View in general practice is that 'ladies don't do hips or knees, just fingers or something'.
