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Sharing the Healthy Heart Message with Women in Africa

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Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier and Thierry Drilhon, cofounders of Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation, were Agnès Renard’s guests on Telesud, a general interest TV station broadcasting in Africa. They took the opportunity to talk about cardiovascular disease in women, as well as introduce the foundation and its work. Their message: it’s essential to alert, anticipate and act without delay to encourage women to take better care of themselves.


 

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Are medications sexist?

Erving Zucker and his colleagues at University of California Berkeley conducted research in more than 5,000 publications and focused on 86 medications on the U.S. market administered to men and women. At equivalent doses, 76 of them had a higher concentration in women’s blood than in men’s blood, [...]

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Women Underrepresented in Clinical Trials

An analysis of 10 years of clinical trials shows no improvement in diversity over time, even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration established recommendations for increasing diversity in 1993. This is even more harmful because we now know that gender, race and ethnicity can affect responses to [...]

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Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation Appears on the BFM Business Check-up Santé Show

Thanks to Fabien Guez for inviting us to appear on his Check-up Santé show on BFM Business to talk about cardiovascular disease among women and Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes). Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women. Every year [...]

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