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How hormonal changes during menopause, particularly the decline in estrogen levels, can lead to muscle pain and body aches.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
How the physician leading the Menopause Society went from thinking “that asking for additional provisions for women would fuel more gender discrimination — if women required special treatment, employers would have more reason to not hire or promote them” to building a plan.
Digging in to the exceedingly low hormone replacement therapy numbers among American women aged 50-59, with less than four percent using the treatment.
An overview of where things stand in menopause care in America.
Hormone therapy has dropped significantly since 2007 across all age groups of potentially menopausal women, according to research presented at the Menopause Society’s annual meeting in Chicago.
What rapamycin could do for millions of women.
STIs among older adults are on the rise.
The Washington Post’s Leana Wen takes on the menopause study that led to millions of menopausal women getting little to no medical treatment for their symptoms.
Mary Claire Haver is an OB-GYN with four million (!!!) followers across social media platforms that she gained by talking about everything menopause.
Digging into menopause, and specifically how “the medical field is failing menopausal women.”
I think that most women remember, and may even still have that book on their shelves, What to Expect When You’re Expecting. …Well, there’s no equivalent of that for women over 40. I wrote this book saying to myself, how about what to expect when you expect to live past 40?
The Cleveland Clinic launched a “Women’s Comprehensive Health and Research Center,” which aims to help women in midlife get the care they need.
Hormone replacement therapy for menopause has been a two-decade long saga, thanks to a 2002 trial that had its results “extrapolated to all estrogen products, all menopausal women, and all delivery mechanisms.”
In the absence of comprehensive medical training on how to treat menopause, supplements are always there to fill the void.
Dr Nadia El-Awady, the medical editor for UK Medscape, offers another take on the Lancet’s menopause edition, saying the focus on “over-medicalization” is unhelpful.
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.