_ Menopause Telephone Therapy Eases Menopause Symptoms By Sondra Forsyth article Chatting on the phone with a “sleep coach” and keeping a nightly sleep diary significantly improve sleep quality and reduce … Read More→
_ Medical Care Menopause Senior Health Clinicians Should Avoid Prescribing Compounded Hormones By Sondra Forsyth article A new Scientific Statement issued on April 1st 2016 by the Endocrine Society in Boston advises clinicians to avoid using … Read More→
_ Menopause Women's Health and Wellness The Menopause Map By Jane Farrell article According to Dr. Nicholas Sieveking, a Nashville-based, board-certified plastic surgeon and the founder of Ageless Solutions, “menopause can surely be … Read More→
_ Menopause The Hormone Therapy Decision By Jane Farrell article The end of the ΓÇ£hormone therapy eraΓÇ¥ appears to have been greatly exaggerated. More than a decade ago, research from … Read More→
_ Menopause Helping Women Navigate the Hormone Replacement Therapy Debate By Jane Farrell article The end of the ΓÇ£hormone therapy eraΓÇ¥ appears to have been greatly exaggerated. More than a decade ago the WomenΓÇÖs … Read More→
Menopause Women's Health and Wellness Taming Hot Flashes Without Hormones By Jane Farrell article Some three-quarters of North American women have menopausal hot flashes, but many cannot use hormones for medical reasons or choose … Read More→
Menopause HRT Neither Raises Nor Lowers Risk of Dying By article Menopausal hormone therapy (HT) does not have a significant effect on the risk of death, according to a Mayo Clinic … Read More→
Menopause When I'm 64, I'll Still Have Hot Flashes? By article The answer is ΓÇ£yesΓÇ¥ for many women. Some 40% of women 60 to 65 years old still have hot flashes. … Read More→
Menopause Women's Health and Wellness Menopause Symptoms Reduced With Nanotechnology By article Nearly nine out of 10 premenopausal and postmenopausal women in the United States experience hot flashes, night sweats or other … Read More→
_ Menopause Kids Help Ease Menopausal Symptoms By Jane Farrell article Women enduring the menopausal characteristics of hot flashes and night sweats donΓÇÖt suffer as much if young children live with … Read More→
_ Menopause Free Menopause Mobile App By Jane Farrell article The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is set to launch a first-ever menopause mobile app, MenoPro, designed for use by … Read More→
_ Menopause Women's Health and Wellness GSM, New Term for Postmenopausal Problems By Sondra Forsyth article Talking about genital, sexual, and urinary problems can be uncomfortable for postmenopausal women and their doctors. Having a term that doesn't carry stigma, isn't embarrassing to say, and is medically accurate could go a long way in helping women get the help they need and allowing them to make smarter healthcare decisions. That term is "genitourinary syndrome of menopause" or GSM. The term was developed and endorsed by The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH).
_ Menopause Many Menopausal Women Go to Anti-Aging Docs By Sondra Forsyth article Feeling that conventional doctors did not take their suffering seriously, women instead sought out hormonal treatments for menopausal symptoms from anti-aging clinicians, according to a sudy done at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
_ Menopause What to Expect and How to Prepare for Menopause By Sondra Forsyth article By Marni Andrews There are a record number of North American women now entering a new period of their lives, menopause, which marks the official end of their reproductive period. Women are born with a finite number of eggs in their ovariesΓÇöby the time they reach their 50s, the number of fertile eggs has dropped significantly. When the remaining eggs are released, or hormones in the body can no longer stimulate their release, the body enters menopause. This generally happens between the ages of 45 and 55, with the average age being around 51.
_ Menopause Toolkit to Diagnose Menopause By Sondra Forsyth article The ΓÇ£Practitioner Toolkit for Managing the MenopauseΓÇ¥, designed to guide physicians in the management of menopausal conditions for women from the age of 40 has been designed by researchers at Monash University in Australia. The kit, which includes a diagnostic tool as well as a compendium of approved hormone therapies, was published on July 6th 2014 in the journal Climacteric.
_ Menopause Menopause Brain: What You Need to Know Beat the Odds By Sondra Forsyth article By Soriyya Bawa As if hot flashes and irritability werenΓÇÖt enough to handle, women going through menopause also worry about the risk of memory loss. Some of the common cognitive concerns relating to memory loss that are reported by women going through menopause include trouble with routine mental tasks and remembering what was once easily retrievable information. A lot of research has delved into evaluating the link between menopause and memory loss, and weΓÇÖre now beginning to understand even more.
_ Menopause Are You Setting Off Your Hot Flashes? By Sondra Forsyth article By Gary Elkins If you start taking note of your hot flashes, you may recognize some events, emotions, or activities that actually seem to contribute to, or ΓÇ£trigger,ΓÇ¥ the onset of a hot flash. Scientifically speaking, while the physiology of hot flashes is associated with a decrease in estrogen level or an increase in gonadotropin concentrations, the actual physiological mechanism of hot flashes is not known.
_ Menopause Non-Hormonal Hot Flash Remedy Works By Jane Farrell article A study done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and published in the May 27th 2014 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine compared low-dose oral estrogen and low-dose non-hormonal venlafaxine hydrochloride extended release (XR) to a placebo. Both treatments proved to be effective in reducing the number of hot flashes and night sweats reported by menopausal women.