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Doctors prescribe more analgesics to women than to men just for being female, Spanish study shows

May 21, 2013 by

Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A new study affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders.

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