Experts
Marianne Legato
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University
Contrary to popular opinion, men are just as likely to suffer from depression than women—they just repress it, sometimes with fatal results. Read More
Males are less likely to make it through the embryonic state and more likely to develop a wealth of disorders and diseases. Read More
A conversation with the professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University. Read More
The masculine chromosome is unique in its inability to repair itself, making it exceptionally prone to mutation and pollution. Read More
About Marianne Legato
Dr. Marianne Legato is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, where she also directs and founded the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine.
Dr. Legato is the founder and editor of "The Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine and of Gender-Medicine" and a leading advocate for the inclusion of women in clinical trials. She is annually cited in New York Magazine's top doctors issues. She is also the author of Eve's Rib:The New Science of Gender-Specific Medicine and How It Can Save Your Life, The Female Heart, and Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget, and, most recently, "Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan." She edited the medical textbook, "Principles of Gender Specific Medicine," the first compilation for professional audiences of the sex-specific aspects of normal human function and disease.
She lives in New York City.
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“Legato, a physician and one of the founders of gender specific medicine, provides a broad-brush look at the relative fragility of men who "at every point of their lives die an average of seven years earlier than women." –Publisher’s Weekly