Billionaire Philanthropist Sparks Frenzy With Menopause Essay

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Billionaire Philanthropist Sparks Frenzy With Menopause Essay

Brian Ach/Getty Images for The Lasker Foundation Melinda French Gates sparked an online frenzy with an essay calling for a “menopause revolution” and committing to donate a large sum to women’s health causes. On Thursday, Melinda, who was married to billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates until 2021, published an essay in The New York Times titled “Women, We Deserve Better Than This.” “Here’s a scene that regularly plays out across the country: A woman walks into her doctor’s office with an increasingly debilitating set of symptoms—her sleep destroyed, joints aching, heart racing, memory slipping—and walks out with no diagnosis, no treatment and no plan,” Melinda, 61, wrote in her essay. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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