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What's the deal with menopause boobs?
Like most issues in women's health, research is scant re the one out of five women whose breast size increases during menopause. But could rapidly…
 • Deborah Copaken
A love letter to Bridget, my partner's wife
Every day after lunch, we dance. Sometimes she tries to eat my fingers. Other times she walks away, shouting word salad and ignoring me. My favorite…
 • Deborah Copaken
Solstice solace
After one of the worst weeks of the worst year in our country's short history, here are reminders of 10 good things that happened last year.
 • Deborah Copaken
What makes a good life?
An 87-year longitudinal study by Harvard found the answer to this centuries-old question for men: good relationships, including a good marriage. For…
 • Deborah Copaken
I called NY State of Health to change my mailing address. I ended up on Medicaid.
How a simple phone call exposed yet another bizarre crack in our Byzantine healthcare bureaucracy.
 • Deborah Copaken
Teens, screens, and suicide
A new study from JAMA and the Emmy-nominated documentary Social Studies, by Lauren Greenfield, highlight the link between social media addiction and…
 • Deborah Copaken
Wanna make a difference?
The FDA is about to hold its "Expert Panel on Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy for Women." The more of us who show up on the YouTube livestream…
 • Deborah Copaken
The Crisis in Primary Care
If the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill"--or what I like to call the Unhinged Ugly Usurping--passes the Senate, say goodbye to finding a primary care…
 • Deborah Copaken
Probiotics and UTI prevention
After a lifetime of UTIs that turned debilitating in menopause, I have finally landed on a several-step precautionary protocol that (knock wood) has…
 • Deborah Copaken
Do SSRIs cause bone loss in menopausal women?
No one knows. Yet. But Dr. Marcella Walker is researching the topic at Columbia, and, in an era when the word 'woman' gets your NSF grant flagged, it's…
 • Deborah Copaken
First they came for the scientists
Clinical trials canceled; NIH gagged; NSF on pause; an abrupt silence at the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; HIV drugs denied: what is to be…
 • Deborah Copaken
Dear Neil Gaiman: consensual ≠ consent
Being in a consensual relationship does not mean one consents to everything the other demands. Particularly in an unequal power dynamic. Related: NDAs…
 • Deborah Copaken
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