The five: medical biases against women

From drug trials that only use men to misconceptions about CPR, medicine's gender inequalities can be matters of life or death

A study last week revealed that women in Australia are less likely than men to receive the recommended medicine for heart failure. In the UK, assumptions that heart failure is a "man's disease" have also led to unequal care. Over the past 10 years, more than 8,000 British women have died as a result of this gender inequality.