# Why Has Medicine Treated Women Like "Small Men with Boobs?" with Dr. Sharon Malone

An episode of [Next Question with Katie Couric](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1134154895), 20 Aug 2026, 33 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69f9fea5a6ade25592fc8239/e/6a8677905c9c346c63a91572/media.mp3

Katie sits down with Dr. Sharon Malone at the Aspen Institute to talk about why women's health has been under-researched and under-funded for centuries -- which also happens to be the subject of Katie's new documentary, HORMONAL!. The numbers are staggering: PMS affects 90% of women but gets a fraction of the funding erectile dysfunction research receives. The NIH didn't require women to be included in clinical trials until 1993. Katie also shares how her own breast cancer diagnosis has shaped her relationship to hormone therapy. It's a candid, infuriating, ultimately hopeful conversation about what it will take to close the gender gap in medicine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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