New York, NY (October 2002) – Celebrations abound for “Eve’s Rib: The New Science of Gender-Specific Medicine and How it Can Save Your Life,” by Dr. Marianne Legato, professor of clinical medicine and founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University.

Dr. Housepian and Dr. Rubinstein talk with a guest from the Karolinska Institute at the Faculty Club reception.	Dr. Weissman introduces Dr. Legato and Eve’s Rib to her guests.	Dr. Legato and a guest discuss Eve’s Rib at the Faculty Club reception.

On October 2nd, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, acting chairman of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University, hosted a reception honoring Dr. Legato at the Faculty Club. The reception was attending by Columbia University faculty and staff.

On October 26th, Ms. Sharon Bernstein hosted a reception for Dr. Legato at her home in Englewood, New Jersey.

On October 30th, Dr. Myrna Weissman, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, hosted a reception at her home in Manhattan attended by authors, journalists, doctors, businessmen and women, and Columbia faculty.

“I was deeply touched to have such an enthusiastic response to my book, Eve’s Rib,” Dr. Legato says. “As I mentioned to everyone who attended these receptions, this book only scratches the surface of what we hope to uncover studying the vast differences in human gender and how men and women uniquely experience disease. I hope that people who read Eve’s Rib will begin to question their doctors and health care providers so that gender-specific medical practice will one day become the norm.”

Dr. Legato signs copies of Eve’s Rib at Dr. Weissman’s reception.		The guests listen to Dr. Legato discuss her book at Dr. Weissman’s reception.