Gender Medicine in Switzerland: How New Knowledge Is Meant to Become the Standard
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At the second Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium in Bern, the focus was on practical implementation. Experts from medicine and research discussed how knowledge about sex, gender and health can reach everyday healthcare. The central question was how individual findings can become common practice.
Gender medicine examines how biological and social differences between women and men influence the development, course and treatment of diseases. For a long time, many studies were conducted mainly with male participants. As a result, less is sometimes known about symptoms in women and the effects of medication on them. In recent years, research in this field has developed considerably.
The symposium showed that the path to precision medicine does not run without obstacles. The event's title speaks of a new beginning, but also of headwinds. This refers both to advances in research and to challenges in applying them in hospitals and practices. Participants stressed that new findings only become effective if they are incorporated into training, guidelines and clinical routine.
For patients in Switzerland, implementing this knowledge could mean better and more tailored treatment in the long term. Whether and how quickly sex- and gender-specific medicine becomes an established standard, however, will only become clear in the coming years.
Sources: healthcare-innovation.ch
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