Hot Flashes: Now Especially for Fat Ladies
Since yesterday, although it seems longer, my RSS reader has been clogged with links to news reports about a UCSF study in which some women who lost weight found that their hot flashes diminished. Of course, that's not what the headlines say. Here's a sample of some...
Saturday Surfing: Heat Wave edition
Woman's Day magazine blog tackles myths of menopause: Part 1 and Part 2. Knitting Clio asks Should the Pill be Set Free from the Prescription? STI rates are higher among men who use erection dysfunction drugs (Viagra and Cialis) than among men who don't, according to...
Teens and the IUD
A new study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found that adolescents are usually able to tolerate the Mirena® IUD rather well. The mean age of girls in this British study was 15.3 years, and they were prescribed the Mirena® for painful and/or...
The ‘Change of Life’ is More than Biology
I hope my colleague Heather Dillaway feels at least at little vindicated when she reads this: A new study in the Journal of Health Psychology reports that social and psychological factors have the biggest influence upon women´s sexual behavior during menopause, rather...
Saturday Surfing – Independent Reading Edition
Our recommendations for Independence Day weekend (U.S.): We're not the only ones who aren't buying the hype over a blood test to predict menopause: Dr. Christian Jessen explains in the London Evening Standard that it's just one little study, and Lyn at Current Mom...
A Pill for Men – Still Five Years Away
The Internet, especially the feminist blogosphere, is all abuzz this week with the promise of a new contraceptive pill for men within the next five years. But researchers always say a pill for men is just five years away, according to University of Washington medical...
