Menopause News

A sixth-grade teacher told Dr. Donna Block that women couldn't become doctors. Not only did she prove that teacher wrong, but she's also been promoting women's health and empowerment ever since.

The British Menopause Society and Women's Health Concern have today released updated guidelines on Hormone Replacement Therapy to provide clarity around the role of HRT, the benefits and the risks.

A new study confirms that menopausal women who feel their memories declining actually experience more forgetfulness, and links the duration of subjective menopause memory loss to the frequency of hot flashes.

A hysterectomy in midlife with or without ovarian conservation is unlikely to accelerate women's cardiovascular disease risk, according to a study published online May 22 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology .

Don't doubt it when a woman harried by hot flashes says she's having a hard time remembering things.

Menopause can be emotionally and psychologically challenging for some women. So what can women expect during this transition and what options are available to make it easier to navigate? But for some women this is not their greatest concern; for them it's the lesser understood psychological and emotional symptoms that can be debilitating and ... (more)

It is not uncommon to hear women complain about health problems besetting their entry into the menopausal phase.

Human genetic material stored at a laboratory in Munich. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is a technique used to identify genetic defects in embryos created through in vitro fertilization before pregnancy, which is banned by German legislation.

Scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health have a new theory as to why a woman's fertility declines after her mid-30s. They also suggest an approach that might help slow the process, enhancing and prolonging fertility.

Ovarian cancer rates in the U.S. began to decline faster in 2002 around the time many older women went off hormone replacement therapy, according to a new study.

Women who undergo elective hysterectomy experience changes in cardiovascular risk factors similar to those observed after natural menopause, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology .

Egg freezing as a way to postpone and have children is becoming increasingly popular in India.

Remedial alternative: Sachiko Kishimoto, head of the Oocyte Donation Network, speaks at a news conference Monday at the heath ministry.

Dyspareunia is the technical term for pain during sexual intercourse, which can be related to mental or physical causes.

IN my previous piece for this column, I looked at the hormonal imbalance situation that appears to be on the rise in our population, especially among women.

And yet, every day, it attacks countless people - many of them women of child-bearing age.

Richard-Davis also is a professor and director of the Division on Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the UAMS College of Medicine.

Suddenly, she noticed her midsection thickening. "I think everybody feels , 'I'm eating the same way I always have been and yet I'm getting this roll.' What is that about?" she said.

Insomnia has been found to be more common among females than males due to the relative size of the hypothalamus and its response to hormones.

Hormone replacement therapy significantly improves muscle function in postmenopausal women, according to a new study.