Science experiments traditionally only used male mice – here’s why that’s a problem for women’s health

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If you have ever taken a medicine, then you have benefited from research in animals. But ten years ago, if you looked at a scientific report involving mice or rats, it would probably have used only male animals.

This means that, even now, if you’re a woman and the medicine has only been developed and tested using male animals, we don’t know how that medicine is going to affect you.