by Heather Dillaway | Apr 26, 2012 | Communication, Internet, Media, Menopause
Lately I’m fed up with the kinds of articles and news items that cross my desk (or computer screen) about perimenopause and menopause. So much of the news on this midlife transition seems negative. I hear about the new treatments for (unbearable) hot flashes or...
by Heather Dillaway | Mar 29, 2012 | Communication, Health Care, Hormones, Internet, Language, Literature, Media, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
As I embark on my 40th year I look ahead to menopause. I guess there is a good chance I’m approaching some foggy years. Brain fog, that is. In the past week a flurry of online news articles review new research findings on the “brain fog” that many perimenopausal women...
by Heather Dillaway | Mar 1, 2012 | Communication, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
The results are in: if you talk to your friends more during menopause, then your menopausal symptoms will bother you less. A study reported in The Telegraph last week suggests that talking either lessens women’s symptoms or helps them cope better (or both). In one...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 8, 2012 | Advertising, Communication, Health Care, magazines, Menopause, Television
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada has inaccurately branded menopause as a killer of women. I will not be sending them a donation. Last October, the foundation launched a fundraising campaign called Make Death Wait. Magazine and TV ads personify death as a man...
by Paula Derry | Feb 6, 2012 | Menopause, Menstruation, Reproduction
The philosopher of science Mary Midgley (1995) doesn’t mince words. She tells us: “The theory of evolution is not just an inert piece of theoretical science. It is, and cannot help being, also a powerful folk-tale about human origins.” Along these lines, stories...
