by Heather Dillaway | Nov 10, 2011 | Language, Menopause, Menstruation
Last Friday I attended a conference on autoethnography and was privileged enough to listen to Carolyn Ellis give the keynote speech on this new and upcoming qualitative methodology. Sitting there and listening to Ellis talk about the need for all of us to be...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 23, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
The Endocrine Society has released a new, peer-reviewed statement on the risks and benefits of hormone therapy for menopausal women. The upshot is that risks and benefits vary depending on the age of the patient and the length of time since menopause: One interesting...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 5, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
As we have often noted here, one of the key reasons the marketing of hormone therapy for menopausal women has been so successful is the misguided belief that menopause is an estrogen-deficiency disease. Among other purported disadvantages of the decline in estrogen...
by Chris Hitchcock | Jan 1, 2010 | Health Care, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
The bioidentical hormone therapy industry has been getting a bad rap lately in the US, and this press release is an example of why. Among other things, the writer confuses estrogen and progesterone, in one paragraph saying their product is a “safe and...