Written by Wulf H Utian MD BCh, PhD, DSc(Med), FRCOG, FACOG, FICS
20 post(s):
Men and Menopause – Is There An Andropause?
Posted 5/13/2013 10:12:53 AM
What happens to men in middle age? While the Bible described life expectancy as “three score years and ten” and half of 70 years would have meant middle age starts at 35, modern life expectancy for men is longer. Middle age can be more accurately said to start at between 40 and 45 ...
Now Will You Believe That Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Is Safe?
Posted 4/23/2013 11:38:19 AM
For the past several month’s I have been working with Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) and a panel of 18 research scientists, clinicians and leading medical program directors uniquely qualified to provide recommendations in the areas of menopause symptoms, Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and cancer...
Removal of ovaries before menopause can cause earlier death or negatively impact quality of life
Posted 4/8/2013 1:40:50 PM
For too many years the ovaries have been considered expendable if the uterus was being removed for a medical indication (hysterectomy)...
Save Your Patients Lives - Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease After Menopause
Posted 3/26/2013 10:27:14 AM
Heart disease kills more women than almost all other diseases combined. But the incidence of this killer disease can be reduced...
Ostoporotic Fractures Can Kill, So What Is A Woman To Do?
Posted 3/8/2013 4:52:04 PM
Osteoporosis was the first genuine long-term major disease proven to be related to menopause...
Society For Women’s Health Research Clears The Air In A Statement On The Role Of Hormone Therapy After Menopause
Posted 2/25/2013 4:31:18 PM
Here is a document I did not write. But I was a key participant in this meeting, and the message is so important, I can add little to what was stated in the press release...
When You Gotta Go Is Not Necessarily So
Posted 2/11/2013 10:33:25 AM
An often-neglected area of women’s healthcare is utero-vaginal prolapse and urinary symptoms...
Revitalizing the Vagina
Posted 1/25/2013 11:10:48 AM
If only everything else in the body was so simple to treat as the vagina. Despite this good news, just too many women remain ignorant about the options and fail to address the subject with their clinicians...
Cooling The Hot Flashes
Posted 1/11/2013 11:41:04 AM
Women are either lucky or unlucky when it comes to the hallmark symptom of the menopause...
Treat The Menopause – Don’t Ignore It
Posted 12/28/2012 9:29:07 AM
Women ignore having their health checked around menopause at their own peril...
Yes, Every Woman’s Menopause Experience Is Different
Posted 12/14/2012 11:08:16 AM
Menopause is a life-changing event. It is not a disease. Nonetheless, all the available medical research confirms that menopause may be associated with specific symptoms...
Your Friends, Family, and Local Culture Determine How You React To Menopause
Posted 11/29/2012 4:38:07 PM
Quick review – hormonal changes cause a presence or absence of specific menopausal symptoms...
Our Minds, Our Internal Environment, Determines How We React To Physical Symptoms
Posted 11/16/2012 9:32:07 AM
A few weeks ago I indicated how hormonal changes initiated different responses to menopause between women, for example, some women experience hot flashes but others don’t...
Why Everyone’s Menopause Is Different
Posted 11/2/2012 11:58:17 AM
We are all different, so why should the menopause experience be the same in all women...
What a Great Week For Midlife Women And Menopausal Hormone Therapy – Keeps And Dops!
Posted 10/19/2012 1:53:13 PM
Ten years ago the bottom dropped out of the use of estrogens and progestogens (EPT) for menopausal hot flashes and prevention of chronic disease...
Bioidentical Hormones And Compounding Drug Deaths
Posted 10/19/2012 1:54:12 PM
The current tragic situation regarding contaminated compounded steroid injections causing stroke and death should alert women to the danger of using mass produced compounded bioidentical hormones as a menopause therapy....
Is Menopause Bad For Your Health?
Posted 10/19/2012 1:54:43 PM
Here is a promised summary of what really can happen to the body as a result of menopause. This comes from the established scientific literature; so do not shoot the messenger...
CONTRACEPTION AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES DURING PERIMENOPAUSE
Posted 8/17/2012 9:13:00 AM
The inability to conceive after menopause is considered to be a major benefit to most women....
LESBIANS AND MENOPAUSE
Posted 8/10/2012 10:50:28 AM
About 5% of women will have their primary emotional and sexual relationship with other women....
SEXUAL PROBLEMS AROUND MENOPAUSE
Posted 8/6/2012 1:12:15 PM
Human sexual behavior has come under the eye of medical scientists, and nowadays sex-related problems get diagnosed into specific categories....
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