Menopause
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Telemedicine meets menopause in customized patient care service
New portal allows patients access to experts on perimenopause and menopause through a membership plan.
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Postmenopausal use of estrogen alone lowers breast cancer cases, deaths
“This should change the way we look at breast cancer prevention, though we might have to be a little creative about it.”
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Medications may drive postmenopausal weight gain
Data from the Women’s Health Initiative shows link between increased body mass index and use of nonhormonal medications.
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Limit customized compounded hormones to special circumstances
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Dairy doesn’t do a body good in midlife women
Daily dairy intake does not bolster bone mineral density at the femoral neck or lumbar spine, nor does it reduce osteoporotic fracture risk in...
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High ‘forever chemicals’ in blood linked to earlier menopause
A new study ‘suggests that select [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] PFAS serum concentrations are associated with earlier natural menopause, a...
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REPLENISH: Oral estradiol/progesterone slowed bone turnover as it cut VMS
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Fezolinetant safe, effective for menopausal vasomotor symptoms
The elective neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist appears to be an effective nonhormone treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms associated...
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Beginning estrogen soon after menopause slows atherosclerosis progression
PHOENIX – The study raises a critical question: Is there a time period where getting hormone therapy would be most beneficial for the heart?
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Menopause hormone therapy found to delay type 2 diabetes
LOS ANGELES – Transdermal delivery of estrogen is the preferred means of administration in women who are obese, who have a risk of DVT, or who...
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Bisphosphonates turn 50
ORLANDO – The progress seen in treating postmenopausal women with breast cancer, is not evident in younger, premenopasual women or for other...