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Hospital led BY women FOR women
For centuries, it seems that the diagnosis of gynecological diseases wasn’t easy for doctors, due to the fact that patients felt ashamed and it was difficult for them to communicate their discomfort to the (man) doctor openly. Already in the 14th century, Jacoba...
The life sciences and healthcare sector in Catalonia
This latest pandemic has made us see health from a different perspective. 2021 was one of the years with the greatest efforts channeled towards innovation in health worldwide. This rapid growth, seen around the world, spells new opportunities in healthcare innovation...
The importance of distinguish “sex” and “gender” in scientific research
It is very common to confuse the words "sex" and "gender" and use them as if they were synonyms, when dealing with different aspects. Sex: Refers to a set of biological attributes in humans and animals that depend on chromosomes, hormone levels and reproductive...
From hysteria to fibromyalgia
Since ancient times, the biology of women has been seen from the male model. At that time, there was a vision of the single sex, that is, there was only one sex, which was man, and women were inferior versions of this model. Hundreds of myths were maintained over...
The invisibility of women in science
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just what we’re shown in movies of human-like robots trying to take over the world. So… what is Artificial Intelligence? It is a computer program designed to try to replicate and develop operations of human intelligence. And can this intelligence help us in the detection of breast cancer? Of . . .
Gender and sex bias in scientific research
The history of medicine is both scientific and cultural, therefore, sex and gender biases are not the only ones found in the field of science, nor are they only found in the scientific field. At the beginning of modern medicine it was thought that diseases did not have a sex, that they were . . .
Artificial intelligence and breast cancer
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just what we’re shown in movies of human-like robots trying to take over the world. So… what is Artificial Intelligence? It is a computer program designed to try to replicate and develop operations of human intelligence. And can this intelligence help us in the detection of breast cancer? Of . . .