Menopausal women will make up the biggest U.S. demographic — so why is medicine still ignoring them?

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Even though women represent half the population, the natural transition of menopause has been a taboo subject for generations. In the past, scurvy, epilepsy, schizophrenia, madness, hysteria were all blamed on menopause.

As recently as the 1960s, menopausal women were called “crippled castrates.”

Lisa Mosconi, a neuroscientist and women’s…

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