article_snippet.sent: But it also means we have been developing and testing drugs on males, assuming that males will work just as well on females, which may not be the case.
article_snippet.sent: We’ve come to realise, for example, paracetamol works better on men, while some opioids work better on women.
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, Jeff imagines a future where pharmaceutical companies produce pain-killing drugs that are specific to one gender.
article_snippet.sent: So perhaps We’ll have pink painkillers for women, and blue ones for boys, each honed to work on the specific male or female brain.
article_snippet.sent: ’ll be a first in medicine.
article_snippet.sent: It may also mean far more effective medication for all of We.
article_snippet.sent: It is not because it will help us understand why men struggle to remember men children’s birthdays or why there are fewer female darts players, but because it may help us find more effective ways to tackle disease.