While it is amusing, and to many somewhat revealing, that Mel Gibson refers to he curretn mental state as going through "male menopause", it seems that not only men are getting on the menopause bandwagon. According to Bronwyn Fryer over at Harvard Business Review, careers are going thru the change too.   Since when did  menopause become a pseudonym for "burnt... »

A news site in the UK reports that shopping trip ended in horror when a woman battling depression brought on by the menopause jumped to her death from the fifth floor of a car park, an inquest heard yesterday. She was undergoing medication at the time of her death and seemed to be getting better.  The coronor returned a verdict that the... »

The Australian Government seems to be taking a somewhat difference and possibly enlightened stance in HRT recommendations compared to Canada or the US.  According to the Government Monitor, for women who decide to use a medicine to manage menopause symptoms, the National Prescribing Service  has determined that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is the most effective treatment.  However, NPS clinical adviser, Judith... »

New Haven, Conn. — The right combination of estrogen and a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), which blocks the effects of estrogen in breast tissue, could relieve menopause symptoms and cut breast cancer risk, Yale researchers report in an abstract presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) scientific meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 17-21. Women in menopause who have... »

Breast cancer is one of the leading cancer killers of women. Approximately one out of nine American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime and more than 44 thousand women die each year from this form of cancer.  Yet almost 90 percent of women who get breast cancer can survive if it's caught early enough. You have a higher risk... »

University Hospitals has begun a clinical-research study to examine the safety and efficacy of the anti-estrogen drug bazedoxifene combined with estrogen on relief of hot flashes and other menopausal side effects. Previously published data suggests that the combination of estrogen and anti-estrogen drugs relieves symptoms, such as hot flashes and bone loss, without causing uterine bleeding. The one-year treatment study hopes to... »

According to the UK Telegraph, researchers at Yale claim that if  the trends their research detected are representative and continue for another 10 generations, the average woman in 2409AD will be 2cm (0.8in) shorter and 1kg (2lb 3oz) heavier, will bear her first child five months earlier, and enter the menopause 10 months later.   But they did not state what the average... »

Started by the IMS and WHO (who?) to create "awareness about one of the most difficult times in a women’s life ". I don't know about you but I can't wait for World Puberty Day,  World Lost Your Virginity Day and  World Death Day.  Not to mention World First Wet Dream Day, World Premature Ejaculation Day and World Could Not Get It Up... »

Another fit and fabulous at 50 article this time from dear old Oz trying to debunk the myth that menopause means thrown on the reject pile.  Since when is turning 50 equivalent to menopause anyway?  And why do we need all the pep talks about how wonderful either or both events are?  Who are we trying to convince?  Ourselves (we already know what... »

A new study by researchers in Switzerland shows that doses of vitamin D between 700 and 1,000 International Units (IU) may reduce the risk of falling by about 20 per cent.  However, doses less than 700 IU had no benefits.  So another reason to be taking Vitamin... »