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Deborah Cornwall

Women needed in medical research to prevent gender bias

Kate Leslie is concerned that the work of male medical researchers gets more exposure in the media. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

More women are urgently needed as medical researchers to reverse a bias in clinical trials which often excludes female patients, a leading academic warns.

Medical research is still a men's game, despite the fact almost half the country's doctors are women, internationally renowned anaesthesia researcher Kate Leslie said.

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