Researchers from Denmark have reported that one-third of women may be unnecessarily treated for breast cancer as a result of public screening programs that over-diagnose the disease. The results of this study appeared in an early online publication in the British Medical Journal on July 9, 2009.  They analyzed breast cancer trends in the years before and after the initiation of government-run... »

According an article in  Science Daily, a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer indicates surgical removal of ovaries is linked to increased risk of lung cancer.  "We found that women who experienced non-natural menopause are at almost twice the risk of developing lung cancer compared to women who experienced natural menopause," Anita Koushik, a researcher at the Universite... »

Reuter's announce "Weight gain during menopause tied to brain changes" . You'd be excused for thinking that it is the brain changes that cause weight gain rather than vice versa.  But the new results from the Pittsburgh Healthy Women Study reported in Psychosomatic Medicine  is merely observing that a small subset of women studied, in fact 18 overweight but otherwise healthy women, showed a... »

Reports out of India suggest that both lifestyle and use of IVF treatments are behind an increasing rate of premature menopause for urban women.  Premature or early menopause is the occurrence of natural/not medically induced menopause occurring before 45. While we might be aware of the life style behaviors (smoking, crash diets, obesity, lack of exercise) which effect our bodies, IVF is a new cause.  Doctors... »

The news is out that the Spanish woman who gave birth to twins at 66 by "reversing menopause" has died at 69 possibly from stomach cancer.  Given her mother died at 101, she naturally had high expectations of a long life and certainly still being around when her children left home.  But she was wrong about that.   Mothers can die at... »

New results of a study undertaken by Copenhagen University have been released.  The study is an observational study of  698,000 women aged 51 to 69  who take part in a national health database. Back in September 2008, Reuters reported "women who take hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause symptoms do not have a higher than usual risk of heart attack, especially if they use a cream... »

If you suffer menopause symptoms then just shove a magnet in your knickers. According to Lady Care,  their  $49.95/£19.95 static magnet can reduce over 23 different menopause symptoms by at least 33%.  Of course there have been no double blind studies to support their claims.  And apart from positioning (4 inches under your navel) there are no specifications as to the power... »

According to Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen, the closing of the Manhattan branch of the UK Myla sex store chain should have made the headlines.  Why?   Was there a scandal of some sort? Was someone fiddling with its books?  Selling  Spanx from under the counter?  Apparently not.  Just another store on the edge that did not survive the downturn.   But since there are still dozens of sex... »

"It is only post-menopause that a woman can apply herself to a job the way that she did when she was in her twenties" says Helen Rumble from the UK Times Online. And what does she mean by that?  Well she goes on to say that "at the beginning and end of life gender differences fade away".   If we substitute "career" for "life", her... »

The UK Mail Online has an interesting article Should middle-aged women be taking natural HRT? Buried at the bottom is information about Progesterone and prevention of dementia. To quote: When HRT was first developed, one of its key selling points was that it protected women against heart disease. While studies have since proved that it does not have this protective effect, bio-identical versions might -... »