Congratulations everyone on wrapping up another course in our journey toward completing our master’s programs! Like others have noted, the learning in this course was both meaningful and challenging. I found that I was able to engage more actively with the readings and activity posts during the first half of the course compared to the latter half, which left me feeling both guilty and frustrated by the realities of time pressure. Once I fell behind, catching up felt almost im

The landmark Women’s Health Initiative (WHI ) was a large U.S. trial that, in 2002, reported that certain types of menopausal hormone therapy slightly increased some health risks, however, the way those results were analyzed and publicized led to a much more frightening message than the data justified (Vogel, 2017). Claims about breast cancer and “HRT being dangerous” led to a frenzy of misinformation and sensationalized risk framing by the media. Media headlines oversimplifi