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Henry T. Ricketts, MD

JAMA. 1975;234(2):186.

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Supporters of Women's Lib are noted for ferreting out one thing or another that is not to their liking and putting it to rights—their rights. A while ago, however, it was two male researchers¹ who dug up a heinous negligence that the ladies had missed.

One helpful test for insuloma consists of starving the suspect for 72 hours and watching for clinical and chemical signs of hypoglycemia. Our sleuths, interested in measurements of glucose during these tests, found, on going through the literature, that practically no women had had a determination for glucose. Only men had. In women, we must surmise, hypoglycemia was diagnosed by symptoms.

After unearthing this shameful oversight, Merimee, of the University of Florida School of Medicine, and Tyson, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, set about collecting normal women, as well as men, and putting them through their paces, not necessarily to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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