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I thought it very interesting they are finding the dosage for Ambien should be less for women, than men. Women seem to retain more of Ambien in their syetem when waking up, and tend to drive drowsy. They are claming that womem's hormones must be factored in when making drugs, because they seem to process drugs, different than men.

The FDA is aware of this problem with Ambien and shrugged it off, because they assumed that heart, lungs, kidneys, etc would process drugs all the same. Without factoring in hormones that are in women would test differently than men. Women should take half the dosage than men, for the same effect, (men 10mg, women 5 mg). A big part of research is testing rats, that are only male, and not include females.

This appears to open a can or worms in the FDA, by having going back and test all drugs, and how they sould be investigated for woman and men. Hopefully reasearch will be geared in this new direction, so drugs do what they intended to do, for both men and women.

Because of the enormous task invovled, I doubt we will see much progress for quite a while, but we can always hope they consider this task crucial, to all human beings.