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Your weekly roundup of hopefully helpful things

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• Women are in the US drinking more in midlife and their older years – including binging. Sarah McKetta, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, presented her national survey findings in Risky Alcohol Use Among Women in the Midlife and Older Ages: Trends and Determinants earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcohol. “We’ve found that these increases are concentrated among women with high socioeconomic status and relative privilege. This includes women with high education and high income, and women who work in prestigious careers.” (Editor’s note: Who are these women – and how can they drink more, let alone binge? I can barely drink anything, much as I want to. The last time I had wine I was literally up all night.)

• Testosterone gel didn’t do much to help women healing from hip fractures: Medscape

• Scientists invent a literal thinking cap (and we imagine the perimenopause brain fog applications): Medscape

• Up to 44 percent of …