Reuters report on new findings on old WHI data that claim breast tenderness is an indicator of breast cancer risk for women taking combined HRT (estrogen + progestin). Researchers at the University of California  analysed the records of over 16000 women from the WHI study.  Based on their analysis, the researchers found women who took hormone treatments had triple the risk of developing... »

Health Behavior News reports that a Scottish study has found that estrogen has an impact on incontinence.  “Our main finding, which comes in particular from one huge trial, is that one type of HRT — systemic conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) — may make urinary incontinence worse,” said June Cody, a methodologist at the Cochrane Incontinence Review Group at the University of... »

In their article  "Women can stay healthy even after menopause!" (who knew?),  the HealthAge lead with the news that menopause is " associated with the permanent end of ... the natural part of woman's life.  So I guess that makes us healthy albeit unnatural. But surely not dead,... »

More news out of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego annual meetings indicates that  hot flashes may signal a higher risk of heart disease and heart attacks. Researches admit that their findings don't mean that hot flashes cause heart disease, or vice versa. However, they do suggest that the two are linked somehow and further research is... »

Vitamin D expert receives award from North American Menopause Society (Boston) –Michael Holick, PhD, MD, director of the Bone Healthcare Clinic and the Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine BUSM recently received the 2009 NAMS/Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.Vitamin D Research Award from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). Holick was presented with the award during... »

Michael P. Goodman, MD,   medical director of the Menopausal Clinic of the Caring for Women Wellness Center in Davis, Calif has told Endocrine Today that   "the  risk attributed to estrogens, especially venous thromboembolism, stroke and testosterone levels are all the result of oral products and not the low-dose transdermal HT product” and that “Clinicians should not be afraid to prescribe estrogens, especially... »

According to the results of a study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh, women were more than twice as likely to have a major depressive episode as they were going through menopause, and almost four times as likely after menopause, compared to before... »

Monash University in Australia has released results of a pilot study that indicates daily use of testosterone in spray form may ward off dementia. Post-menopausal women suffer dementia and memory loss at twice the rate of men aged over 65. The rapid decline in testosterone production in women after menopause could be a factor. Tracking the effort made by the brain to... »