Dr. Mary Claire Haver, the noted Galveston ob-gyn who’s become a leading national voice for women’s health, wants everyone to know this about menopause: the change is inevitable, but suffering is not.Haver, who turns 56 in August, became a social media star, first on Facebook and then with her off-the-cuff videos on TikTok and Instagram, where she’s found an audience of millions of women hungry for information about menopause—the life stage when menstrual cycles end. Even though it affects every woman, it’s woefully underresearched—accounting for just about 1 percent of what the National Institutes of Health spends on women’s research—and not well understood by the medical field as a whole. (A recent study found that only about 31 percent of OB-GYN residencies featured a formal…
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