The Journal

For much of modern medicine, the male body was treated as the default. In 1977, FDA guidance recommended excluding women of childbearing potential from early phases of drug trials. That policy changed in the early 1990s, and in 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act made the inclusion of women in NIH-funded clinical research a matter of […]

For years, people have been told that mood disorders begin and end in the brain. But the longer I practice medicine, the more I see how much of emotional health lives in the body. A woman in her late thirties came to see me after more than fifteen years on an antidepressant. It had helped […]