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America Refuses to Go Bald

December 2, 2025

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What We Gain When We Stop Caring

August 21, 2025

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Mrs. Dalloway’s Midlife Crisis

September 2025 Issue

How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35

Natalie Brennan and Yasmin Tayag

April 14, 2025

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A Fundamental Stage of Human Reproduction Is Shifting

Katherine J. Wu

May 6, 2024

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Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift

Rachel E. Gross

April 17, 2024

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Why So Many Accidental Pregnancies Happen in Your 40s

Rachel E. Gross

November 14, 2023

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Me and My Bosom

Xochitl Gonzalez

November 3, 2023

Capitalism Has Plans for Menopause

October 30, 2023

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What Menopause Does to Women’s Brains

Deborah Copaken

November 8, 2019

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The Conversation

Letter: Menopause Can Be a ‘Passage of Liberation’

October 28, 2019

The Books Briefing: On Growing Old and Growing Up

Rosa Inocencio Smith

September 27, 2019

The Secret Power of Menopause

October 2019 Issue

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A Moby-Dick–Inspired Memoir of Menopause

June 18, 2019