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In the NYU Women’s Health Study, we research the causes of cancer and other chronic diseases in women in order to identify potential prevention strategies. For more than 30 years, in one of the longest-running studies of its kind, we have investigated the role of hormones, diet, and other factors in the development of the…

Physician-scientist Basmah Safdar, MD, has long viewed—and practiced—women’s health as precision medicine. Every cell has a sex. Accordingly, a precision health perspective demonstrates that there are fundamental differences between men and women in almost every health and disease that dictate clinical care. Inadequate sex-specific data drives healthcare inefficiencies and higher costs due to missed or…