Menopause

Cetrotide: New Fertility Drug Reduces Hot Flashes In Women
by eNotAlone.com
A powerful fertility drug that prevents premature ovulation during fertility treatments may become very useful for older women by reducing and even stopping hot flashes, according to the results of a new small study of women who enter menopause.

Early Menopause May Lead To Ischemic Stroke
by eNotAlone.com
Women who experience early menopause are at a doubled risk of developing cardiovascular events such as ischemic stroke, according to a new research presented recently at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in San Diego.

Menopause And Herbal Treatment
by eNotAlone.com
There is little scientific evidence that herbal remedies can relieve symptoms of menopause, suggests a new independent review, and some of them may even have serious side effects and be potentially dangerous if interacted with other treatments.

Part 1
The Change; Women, Aging and the Menopause
by Germaine Greer
In this compulsively readable, fascinating account of menopause, renowned feminist and author Germaine Greer gives us so much more than the medical facts. She has gone back into history, read textbooks, explored novels and poems, and has written a wholly

Hormones and Menopause
by National Institute on Aging
A hormone is a chemical substance made by a gland or organ to regulate various body functions. To help control the symptoms of menopause some women can take hormones, called menopausal hormone therapy (MHT).

Biology of Perimenopause
Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices
by Susan M. Love, M.D., Karen Lindsey
Yet often the symptoms of perimenopause (breast tenderness, headaches, increased vaginal lubrication) are symptoms not of low estrogen but rather of high estrogen. Some recent studies have looked more deeply into what may explain this phenomenon.

What Is Menopause?
Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices
by Susan M. Love, M.D., Karen Lindsey
Before we can discuss how to deal with menopause, we need to have a clear understanding of what it is. If menopause means 'the time after your periods stop,' why are you having hot flashes while you still have periods?

The Estrogen and Progestin Dilemma
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA is giving important new safety advice to postmenopausal women and their health-care providers concerning drug products that contain estrogen. The updated advice, which includes product label revisions, reflects the agency's review of data

Menopause: Estrogen Alternatives
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Miacalcin (calcitonin) and Fosamax (alendronate) are two drugs FDA has approved for treating osteoporosis. Miacalcin is effective in women who are not candidates for HRT and who are at least five years postmenopausal and are suffering from osteoporosis.

Menopause: Long-Term Health Risks, Replacing Estrogen
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Since women today live an average of 35 years longer than they did 150 years ago, scientists have only recently come to understand the long-term outcomes of living without the protective effects of estrogen.

Taking Charge of Menopause
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though the transition that occurs when a woman's reproductive years end can be a jarring one, many women see the change as a new kind of freedom, especially with the variety of treatments available to ease menopausal symptoms.

Menopause: Estrogen Therapy, Before Menopause
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Estrogen can produce uncomfortable side effects such as nausea and vomiting. It can enlarge breasts and make them tender. Women who use it can also retain excess fluid, which can aggravate conditions like asthma, epilepsy, migraines, and heart and kidney

Menopause: Hormone Replacement Therapy, Risks of Estrogen Therapy
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Menopause is becoming a popular conversation piece. And for a major reason: By the end of this century, as the baby boomers reach their 50s, more women than ever will be experiencing menopause. Estrogen replacement therapy can help alleviate their symptom

Progesterone-Like Drug Controls Hot Flashes
by National Cancer Institute
Hot flashes - increases in body temperature that occur as a result of fluctuating hormone levels - are a common problem for women approaching menopause. Hot flashes also afflict premenopausal women treated with chemotherapy

Menopause Puts Your Life Under a Microscope
The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change
by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
It is no secret that relationship crises are a common side effect of menopause. Usually this is attributed to the crazy-making effects of the hormonal shifts occurring in a woman's body at this time of transition.

Understanding This Thing Called Menopause
Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause: Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life
by Colette Bouchez
What You Need to Know Right from the Start. My good friend Nadine hit me with a sobering thought this morning. We were headed to our local gym to meet Laura, Robyn, Tina, and few other friends for our regular We're-not-getting-older-we're-getting-better

The Yoga of Menopause: Alternatives to Hormone Therapy
Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause: A Guide to Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health at Midlife and Beyond
by Suza Francina
Woman's lives are deeply affected by the ebb and flow of their hormones—those mysterious and miraculous molecules that deliver vital messages via the bloodstream from one part of the body to another. Indeed, our lives are patterned by the cycles of nature

How Did We Get Here?
The Hormone Solution: Naturally Alleviate Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance from Adolescence Through Menopause
by Erika Schwartz, M.D.
Menopause is not a pause. While menopause literally means cessation of menstrual periods, for most women it defines the most traumatic part of their lives. It forces them to confront the inevitability of aging. It is not a glorious transition

Premenopause as a Life Cycle
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause, Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty
by John R. Lee, M.D., Virginia Hopkins, Jesse Lynn Hanley, M.D.
You're only in your mid-thirties and you absolutely do not want to hear the word menopause applied to you, even if it is pre menopause. You're not there yet. You're still young, you haven't even had kids yet for heaven's sake, or your kids aren't even out

Premenopause
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause : The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance
by John R. Lee, M.D., Virginia Hopkins
A woman's hormone balance can begin to shift at anywhere from her mid-30s to her late 40s, depending on a variety of factors such as heredity, environment, how early or late she began menstruating, whether she had children and if so at what age and how