Women’s Pain Is Different From Men’s—the Drugs Could Be Too
Now a study in the journal Brain reveals differences in the sensory nerves that enter the spinal cords of men and women with neuropathic pain, which is persistent shooting or burning pain. Tailoring new medicines to men or women would be revolutionary, particularly considering that it took many years for women (and female animals) to get included in pain research at all. Mogil once emailed a researcher, asking whether a pain drug worked better in men than women.
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