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Surprisingly little is known about this slow hormonal shift we all experience, yet doctors often mistake it for other conditions--or miss the signs of something more serious. Here's the info [...]

Breast cancer survivors entering menopause face the risk of several menopausal symptoms:Hot flashes, the most common symptom, occur in more than 75% of women during menopause and have the potential [...]

Coverage and expert comment on new insights on HT and Alzheimer disease risk, HT route and sexuality outcomes, mortality in WHI participants, and USPSTF recommendations that may adversely impact HT [...]

INTRODUCTION Of the approximately 64 million women in the United States who are postmenopausal, at least half--estimated at more than 32 million women--have symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) or dyspareunia, [...]

Women are at increased risk of developing depression during the perimenopausal transition, which can present with menopausal symptoms and affect women with no previous symptoms of depression, according to recent [...]

In the United States, there are approximately 64 million women who are postmenopausal. Of these women, it is estimated that 50%--or more than 32 million--have symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy (WA) [...]

Data suggest that several years of systemic hormone therapy are safe in mutation carriers who have intact breasts and no personal history of breast cancer. If such mutation carriers have [...]

OVERVIEW Vasomotor symptoms (VMS) are the most common symptoms associated with menopause. Historically, all the core treatment options for menopausal VMS involve hormonal therapy (HT). However, HT may not be [...]

CASE After 3 years of HT, a patient asks whether it's time to quit My menopausal patient is a 57-year-old woman with a body mass index (BMI) of 21 kg/[m.sup.2]. [...]

2018 OCT 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- CLEVELAND - () - Why do women typically live longer than men? [...]

2018 OCT 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--Light therapy has long been a recognized treatment option for [...]

2018 OCT 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND - () - Women at any age should be able to enjoy sex. [...]

2018 JUN 7 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--Although the genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is more prevalent in survivors [...]

Until recently, when it was surpassed by lung cancer, breast cancer was the most common malignancy in women, accounting for an estimated 231,840 new cases and 40,290 deaths per year [...]

Vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) describes symptoms associated with decreased estrogenization of vulvovaginal tissue. The condition can occur at any time in a woman's life but is most common postmenopause.1 A recent [...]

What are the key challenges for clinician providers who care for the older woman past reproductive age or those who are surgically menopausal? Menopausal symptoms are a concern for a [...]

Unexpected findings from the Women's Health Initiative led many clinicians to think twice before prescribing hormone or estrogen replacement therapy (HRT, ERT) for women with troublesome, even severe, symptoms of [...]

In North America, women experience menopause (the permanent cessation of menstruation due to loss of ovarian activity) at a median age of 51 years. They may experience symptoms of perimenopause, [...]

2017 OCT 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--Did you know you're two-to-four-times more likely to suffer from depression during [...]

2017 OCT 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio () - If you're postmenopausal, you shouldn't be bleeding. The very definition [...]

2017 SEP 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- The latest study released by The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) confirms the safety [...]

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) issued its first position statement on menopausal hormone therapy (HT) in 2002 and has added biennial updates ever since. Groups that have endorsed the [...]

2015 OCT 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--Millions of women may likely be sleep-deprived. It's already a known fact [...]

2015 OCT 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--What has previously been known as good cholesterol--high density lipoprotein (HDL)--has now [...]

2015 OCT 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--The benefits of vitamin D supplementation for postmenopausal women have been widely [...]

2015 OCT 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--Local estrogens continue to be underutilized in the treatment of genitourinary symptoms [...]

2015 OCT 8 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is pleased to announce the recipients [...]

2015 SEP 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- TherapeuticsMD, Inc. (NYSE MKT: TXMD), an innovative women's healthcare company, announced that [...]

2015 SEP 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--There is much debate surrounding how a woman entering the stages of [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- CLEVELAND, Ohio ()--Some 40% of women 60 to 65 years old still have hot flashes. For many, the hot [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Removing ovaries at hysterectomy does not increase a woman's risk of pelvic organ prolapse after menopause. In fact, removing [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- After menopause and before age 65, women who have normal bone density have a very low risk of fracture, [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Testosterone supplementation for women is a hot topic. A new pharmacokinetics study of a brand of testosterone cream for [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Having premenstrual syndrome (PMS) before menopause does not mean women will be troubled by hot flashes afterward. But they [...]

The notion that women in midlife are moody is so pervasive that entire Pinterest boards and Facebook pages are dedicated to menopause jokes. For physicians, however, it's not always so [...]

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is affirming the safety and efficacy of hormone therapy for certain conditions, and in certain populations of menopausal women, in its soon-to-be released 2016 [...]

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is affirming the safety and efficacy of hormone therapy for certain conditions, and in certain populations of menopausal women, in its soon-to-be released 2016 [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Dyspareunia, or more commonly known as pain during sexual intercourse, may afflict as many as one in four women. [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Don't doubt it when a woman harried by hot flashes says she's having a hard time remembering things. A [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Eating more soy was associated with larger reductions in menopausal vasomotor symptoms (VMS), such as hot flashes, among U.S. [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Hypnosis can help cut hot flashes by as much as 74%, shows a study supported by the National Center [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Depomed, Inc. (NASDAQ: DEPO) announced that it is presenting two abstracts from its Phase 3 clinical trial, BREEZE 3, [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Estrogen/progesterone treatment started soon after menopause appears safe and relieves many of the symptoms menopausal women face as well [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Women treated for breast cancer after menopause with aromatase inhibitors have very high levels of sexual difficulties, including low [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- After 10 years of debate regarding the risks and benefits of hormone therapy, 15 top medical organizations have come [...]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- A great deal has been learned in the decade since the first results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) [...]

'Times of rapid decline in reproductive hormones have been associated with mood episode onset, and the menopausal transition confers an increased risk of depression. Mood state in women with bipolar [...]

'The aim of this study was to examine the individual and combined associations of leisure-time physical activity and sleep with cardiovascular risk factors in postmenopausal women. We analyzed 48-month cross-sectional [...]

According to recent research from Newark, United States, 'Research is ongoing into the mechanisms of abnormal uterine bleeding, including bleeding from organic etiologies, where there is an intrinsic uterine lesion.' [...]

According to recent research published in the Menopause - the Journal of the North American Menopause Society, 'The risk of cardiovascular disease increases after menopause. Recent evidence suggests that it [...]