Excerpted From Gender and the Genome 2019 Vol. 3: 1-3
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Personalized Medicine and the Icarus Project: Ethical and Moral Issues in Sending Humans into Space The irresistible urge of humans to expand their current competence in mastering the environment is nowhere more apparent than the attempt to conquer space and colonize other worlds. The promise of an expanded universe for earth’s life forms is irresistible.
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The Difference in How We Talk
Thursday, 23 February 2023
we’ve just learned that women hear and process what they hear better than men do. But the ease with which women understand language extends to producing it as well. Women find verbal communication easier and have richer vocabularies than men.
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The Body Language Divide
Saturday, 18 February 2023
We’ve discussed the greater ease with which women interpret non-verbal cues, so it won’t come as a surprise that women use more of them to communicate as well. Women tend to use facial expressions, verbal rhythm and tone, and physical gestures to convey information and emotion.
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Lost in Translation
Monday, 13 February 2023
Perhaps our difficulties in successfully talking to one another have to do with inaccuracies in the way we analyze the information we’re given.
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The Grieving Brain
Monday, 13 February 2023
The end of a romantic relationship is truly agonizing. I remember feeling furious as I imagined the cad who might one day break my daughter’s heart. At the time, my husband consoled me by pointing out that she was five years old and safe—at least for a while.
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The Cost of Men’s Sports
Wednesday, 04 January 2023
One of the most startling and unexpected events in sports is the sudden death during the play of a young athlete. Herodotus recorded the death of the Athenian’s fleetest runner, Pheidippides, who had been sent to seek help from Sparta during the Persian invasion; he ran 167 miles to reach the Spartans, the raced back
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Falling in Love Made Men and Women More Like Each Other
Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Dr. Marazziti speculates that this similarity in hormone levels helps to solidify relationships in their shaky early stages by erasing differences. Women with higher
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For Men Only
Monday, 26 September 2022
There’s an old joke: God is handing out his very last gifts to the new couple in Paradise. He announces: I’ve only got two things left.
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Presentation to IGM 10th Annual Meeting
Friday, 23 September 2022
Marianne J. LegatoMarianne J. Legato, MD, Ph. D. (hon. c.), FACP is an internationally renowned academic, physician, author, lecturer, and pioneer in the field of gender-specific medicine. She is a Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr.
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Why Men Die First How to Lengthen Your Lifespan
Monday, 29 August 2022
Depression has a widespread and devastating impact on health. It is associated with disturbances in the endocrine, cardiovascular and immune systems as well as affecting bone health. The risk of coronary artery disease is three times higher among men with a diagnosis of depression; interestingly, there is no increased risk for women. After they have had a heart attack, depressed patients have a 3.5 increase in cardiovascular mortality. Applying new criteria developed by the World Bank, Harvard University, and the World Heath Organization, researches found that major depression is the leading cause of disability and lost days from work in developed countries, including the United States.
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