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From the Ted Talk by Alyson McGregor: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

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It used to be thought that those sex-determining comohseroms pictured here — XY if you're male, XX if you're fmaele — merely dnertmeied whether you would be born with ovaries or testes, and it was the sex hormones that those organs produced that were responsible for the differences we see in the opposite sex. But we now know that that theory was wrong — or it's at least a little incomplete. And thankfully, scientists like Dr. Page from the Whitehead Institute, who works on the Y chromosome, and Doctor Yang from UCLA, they have found evidence that tells us that those sex-determining chromosomes that are in every cell in our bodies continue to remain avtcie for our entire lives and could be what's responsible for the differences we see in the dosing of dugrs, or why there are differences between men and women in the susceptibility and sivetery of dsasiees. This new knowledge is the game-changer, and it's up to those scientists that ctuninoe to find that evidence, but it's up to the clinicians to sratt tlnrsniatag this data at the bedside, today. Right now. And to help do this, I'm a co-founder of a national organization caelld Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative, and we collect all of this data so that it's available for teaching and for patient care. And we're working to bring together the medical edotuarcs to the table. That's a big job. It's chnnaigg the way medical training has been done since its inception.

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It used to be thought that those sex-determining ___________ pictured here — XY if you're male, XX if you're ______ — merely __________ whether you would be born with ovaries or testes, and it was the sex hormones that those organs produced that were responsible for the differences we see in the opposite sex. But we now know that that theory was wrong — or it's at least a little incomplete. And thankfully, scientists like Dr. Page from the Whitehead Institute, who works on the Y chromosome, and Doctor Yang from UCLA, they have found evidence that tells us that those sex-determining chromosomes that are in every cell in our bodies continue to remain ______ for our entire lives and could be what's responsible for the differences we see in the dosing of _____, or why there are differences between men and women in the susceptibility and ________ of ________. This new knowledge is the game-changer, and it's up to those scientists that ________ to find that evidence, but it's up to the clinicians to _____ ___________ this data at the bedside, today. Right now. And to help do this, I'm a co-founder of a national organization ______ Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative, and we collect all of this data so that it's available for teaching and for patient care. And we're working to bring together the medical _________ to the table. That's a big job. It's ________ the way medical training has been done since its inception.

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Original Text


It used to be thought that those sex-determining chromosomes pictured here — XY if you're male, XX if you're female — merely determined whether you would be born with ovaries or testes, and it was the sex hormones that those organs produced that were responsible for the differences we see in the opposite sex. But we now know that that theory was wrong — or it's at least a little incomplete. And thankfully, scientists like Dr. Page from the Whitehead Institute, who works on the Y chromosome, and Doctor Yang from UCLA, they have found evidence that tells us that those sex-determining chromosomes that are in every cell in our bodies continue to remain active for our entire lives and could be what's responsible for the differences we see in the dosing of drugs, or why there are differences between men and women in the susceptibility and severity of diseases. This new knowledge is the game-changer, and it's up to those scientists that continue to find that evidence, but it's up to the clinicians to start translating this data at the bedside, today. Right now. And to help do this, I'm a co-founder of a national organization called Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative, and we collect all of this data so that it's available for teaching and for patient care. And we're working to bring together the medical educators to the table. That's a big job. It's changing the way medical training has been done since its inception.

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