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Too many women face a "diagnostic odyssey" at the doctor's office. This $20 billion plan could change things. (www.cbsnews.com)
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Women live longer than men, but they also spend more time being sick. Why is that? One reason is that women's health has long been under-researched and underfunded.

According to research from Melinda French Gates' Pivotal, for every dollar spent globally on medical research and innovation, only 5 cents are spent on women's health.

The Society for Women's Health Research is trying to change that in the United States with a first-of-its-kind, $20 billion,10-year federal road map to improve the health of more than half of the population.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't that sort of the machine of modern insurance? Live long enough to get caught up in that grinder now that they can't just give people opiates for everything?

It seems like a problem with for profit medicine. It seeks profits.

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