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Ms. Magazine’s Jennifer Weiss-Wolf takes on the Lancet’s “menopause is overmedicalized” message, writing that “the real disservice to women is the lack of consideration of menopause in the halls of government.”
ABC chief medical correspondent and OBGYN Jennifer Ashton breaks down the Lancet message on menopause.
Period tracker app Flo crunched the numbers from 19 million users and found as women got older their periods got “shorter and more variable.”
At-home menopause tests are now a thing, and the Washington Post looks at whether they work.
Pharmaceutical company Bayer announced its menopause drug “eased hot flashes and improved sleep in two late-stage trials.”
Actress Halle Berry will join First Lady Jill Biden to talk about “advancing research on menopause and women’s health.”
What rapamycin could do for millions of women.
What rapamycin could do for millions of women.