by Heather Dillaway | Sep 13, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Menopause
September is Menopause Awareness Month. If you do a web search on “Menopause Awareness Month,” the first things that pop up are about hormone therapies, pain, cramps, eye floaters, and other terrible symptoms that should probably be commemorated this month….or maybe...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 30, 2010 | Advertising, Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Longtime readers may recall that late last year, the New York Times published an essay about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. Despite that exposé and others of the well-documented risks and limited benefits of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 19, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research It’s been two weeks since Chris Hitchcock and I returned from San Diego’s recent Endocrine Society meetings. We are feeling incredibly happy with the success of our protracted, intense...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 14, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jul 7, 2010 | Menopause, New Research, Sex
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 28, 2010 | Media, Menopause, New Research, Newspapers
Guest Post by Heather Dillaway, Wayne State University I keep seeing news articles about a “new Iranian study” that hopes to better predict “age at menopause” for women, and the authors of this study supposedly discovered a “blood test” that will be able to “predict...
