How One Well Meaning Study Led to Substandard Care
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.
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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.
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.”
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