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Editorial

“Ladies first”: a plea for prioritizing women’s inclusion in the research and health care agenda

Márcia Mendonça Carneiroa Women & Health;b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil;c ORIGEN Center for Reproductive Medicine, Belo Horizonte, BrazilCorrespondence[email protected]
, MD, PhD
Pages 195-198 | Published online: 10 Mar 2024

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