The German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM) is urging the federal government to put more emphasis on women’s health.
“Gender‑sensitive medicine is still in its infancy in many areas of research” said DGIM president Dagmar Führer‑Sakel in an interview with the “Rheinische Post” (Monday edition). “That is especially true for hormonal and molecular fundamentals – we’re still essentially in the Middle Ages in that regard”. She added that the lack of data is partly due to the fact that most studies are conducted on male subjects, and the results are then frequently applied to women without further distinction.
Gender‑sensitive medicine takes differences between men and women’s bodies into account. The federal government intends to support research in this field, as announced by research minister Dorothee Bär (CSU) and health minister Nina Warken (CDU). However, concrete plans have not yet been released.