Menopause News

TUESDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- A hormone called DHEA appears to help ease women's menopausal symptoms and also improve their sex life, a small, new study says. This is the first evidence that low doses of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), a hor...

TUESDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women do have options when it comes to treating hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, and these still include the short-term use of hormone replacement therapy using estrogen alone, experts conclude in a...

TUESDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Certain factors have been found to be associated with a raised risk of early menopause, including having a chronic inflammatory disease or having one of two genes known to be linked to breast cancer, especially...

TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- There's no link between menopause and increased risk of death from heart disease, says a study that challenges a long-held medical belief that the rate of cardiovascular death in women spikes after menopause. A...

THURSDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking may increase sex hormone levels in postmenopausal women, a new study suggests. Previous research has shown that high levels of estrogens and androgens may be risk factors for breast and endometrial can...

WEDNESDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Menopause does not raise a woman's odds of developing diabetes, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System found this was true for both women who underwent natural men...

THURSDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with hormone replacement therapy (HRT), if tailored to an individual woman's needs, appears to be safe during menopause, according to a report scheduled for release Friday at the World Congress on Men...

TUESDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Acupuncture may help reduce the severity of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, according to a small study. The research included 53 postmenopausal women, with about half receiving traditional Chinese ...

FRIDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Women who begin to experience hot flashes and night sweats early in menopause appear to be at lower risk for heart disease, stroke and death, a new study suggests. But the start of those symptoms later in menopa...

FRIDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Young women with a menopause-like condition called primary ovarian insufficiency should be evaluated for depression, a new study suggests. Women with the condition, called POI for short, stop producing normal amo...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- A positive attitude and a little preparation can help women deal with menopause, according to an expert. Women should start preparing when they experience perimenopause, the stage before menopause. Perimenopa...

MONDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- A simple blood test may one day help predict the age at which a woman will begin menopause, say the scientists who developed the test. Their study found that the average difference between the age predicted by t...

FRIDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Blood levels of LDL cholesterol, the bad kind that blocks arteries, go up sharply in women at the time of menopause, but there are no other dramatic changes in risk factors for heart attack, stroke and other car...

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The timing and type of hormone replacement therapy women take to relieve menopausal symptoms seem to determine the degree of breast cancer risk they face, a new French study suggests. Overall, starting estro...

MONDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Science is now backing up what women have long claimed: Memory and learning take a hit during menopause. Research published in the May 26 issue of Neurology finds that women do not learn as well during early and ...

THURSDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- Chemicals in soybeans reduced the effects of menopause in rats, according to a Taiwanese study. The researchers found that dietary supplementation with soy aglycons of isoflavone (SAI) -- a group of chemicals ...

TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Acupuncture appears ineffective in treating menopause-related hot flashes, according to researchers who reviewed six randomized controlled studies that compared the effects of real acupuncture and sham acupunct...

FRIDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Experiencing early menopause significantly raises a woman's risk for stroke, new research reveals. "Women who reached menopause before age 42 had a doubling in the risk of ischemic stroke, compared to all other ...

TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A large study of tibolone, a drug used to treat menopausal symptoms and to prevent osteoporosis, was halted early after researchers found that the synthetic steroid significantly increased the risk of recurrent...

THURSDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have a shorter menopause may be at greater risk for earlier onset of heart disease, a new study says. In a study of more than 200 middle-aged women, those who completed menopause within three years ha...

FRIDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- They're marketed as "bio-identical" hormones or "bio-identical hormone replacement therapy," and they claim to do everything from helping menopausal women lose weight to preventing senility. They're touted as sa...