The First World Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine: Men, Women, and Medicine took
place in Berlin, with over 300 participants from all over the world. The concept of
the meeting was to develop a new view of the biology of sex/gender differences and
aging. This has been confirmed by the growing interest in the differences found in
clinical research between the ways in which the sexes react to illnesses and treatments.
Marianne J. Legato, MD, the president of the congress, is on the faculty of Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, and is the founder and
director of the Partnership of Gender-Specific Medicine in New York. She expressed
the outstanding issue that gender-specific medicine goes far beyond the archaic ideas
that the only significant differences between men and women are in their reproductive
biology; in fact, those differences embrace the entire organism.
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