What Women Need to Know: From Headaches to Heart Disease and Everything in Between

Marianne J. Legato · Carol Colman

Apr 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

After traveling the country and listening to women’s most common health problems, Dr. Marianne Legato, one of the nation’s leading advocates for women’s health, answers these common questions and more in What Women Need to Know. This revolutionary book teaches women how to ask their doctors the right questions and leave the office satisfied. Dr. Legato is also the author of The Female Heart, a book that dispels myths that heart disease is only a male problem. Her coauthor on both books is Carol Colman Gerber, one of the country’s leading medical writers.

About the author

Marianne Legato, MD, is director of the new Institute for Gender Specific Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Institute is devoted to supporting research on women’s health issues and to eliminating gender bias in medical research. Dr. Legato is coauthor of The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Coronary Artery Disease, the groundbreaking book that dispelled the myth that heart disease is purely a male problem. She is also one of the nation’s leading advocates for women’s health.  Carol Colman Gerber is the award-winning author and coauthor of many popular medical books, including The Female Heart, The Lupus Handbook for Women, The Melatonin Miracle, and The Superhormone Promise.