Menopause

Menopause is a natural and inevitable stage in a…

I recently broke my ankle in a fall while running. I’m in perfect health otherwise, but have been told that due to my age – I’m in my late 50s – I need HRT to protect against osteoporosis. The disease doesn’t run through my family, I don’t…

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The findings come from a survey of more than 1,300 middle-aged womenBy Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 15:43 BST, 25 September 2023 | Updated: 15:47 BST, 25 September 2023 <!--…

It was the guffaw of her gynecologist. That’s the thing Dannette Fogle, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher in New York, remembers most clearly about her introduction to menopause.She was 34 when she noticed changes in her otherwise regular…

According to the South African Society of Psychiatrists, apart from the more well-known physical symptoms such as weight gain and hot flashes, the risk of depression and anxiety increases during…

Gender-neutral NHS advice is finally being binned, it emerged today.Mentions of women were last year quietly scrubbed from health pages on cervical and ovarian cancers in order to be more 'inclusive'.The woke push also saw gendered terms…

Each day, around 6,000 women in the United States enter menopause, which officially starts 12 months after a woman’s last period. But perimenopause, the time leading up to menopause, can last anywhere from two to 14 years (the average is…

It's hard to know what to believe when it comes to HRT and dementia. Does the treatment have the unexpected benefit of protecting the brain in older age? Or could it have the opposite effect?One study, which made headlines last month,…

For example, hot flashes have been linked with the amount of white matter hyperintensities, which are small lesions in the part of the brain that contains the fibers connecting the neuron cells, Dr. Mosconi said. A study published last year…