Menopause
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Hot Flashes
By: NWHN Staff Alternative Medicine, Estrogen, Hormone Therapy, Menopause, Natural Hormones Fact Sheets, Health InfoHot flashes are the most common symptom of menopause, and are extremely aggravating to women. While some women never have hot flashes and others have mild or infrequent hot flashes, some women experience dozens each day.
Menopause Hormone Therapy Overview
By: NWHN Staff Estrogen, Hormone Therapy, Hormones, Hot Flashes, Menopause Fact Sheets, Health InfoThe widespread popularity of hormone therapy in the United States is a triumph of marketing over science and advertising over common sense. Drug companies and many health care providers view menopause as a disease to be treated.
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How Safe Are Low-Dose Estrogen Vaginal Creams?
By: NWHN Staff ,Estrogen, Low-dose Vaginal Products, Menopause, Since You Asked Women’s Health FAQsAs the research currently stands, it appears that vaginal estrogen is a safe and effective treatment for vaginal discomfort due to menopause, and has a much lower risk of the cancers and cardiovascular events typically associated with hormone therapy.
What Are My Options for Treating Hot Flashes?
By: Evita Almassi ,Hormone Therapy, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Since You Asked Women’s Health FAQsMany women who reach the point of menopause experience hot flashes as a common side effect. While hot flashes are relatively normal and an anticipated side effect of the natural changes that occur during menopause, some women may have harsher...
Menopause and Hair Loss
By: Ali Tweedt ,Hair, Menopausal Symptoms, Menopause, Since You Asked Women’s Health FAQsMenopause is a natural process that all women will experience during their lives. Due to fluctuating hormone levels, the body goes through many physical changes during menopause.
What Options Are Available to Manage Hot Flashes?
By: Shaniqua Seth ,Bioidentical Hormones, FDA Advocacy, Hormone Therapy, Menopause, Menopause Hormone Therapy, Since You Asked, Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Women’s Health FAQsThere are various methods for managing menopausal symptoms. It’s important for women to have comprehensive information about the treatment options available so they can decide which one is best for them.
Clues, Confirmations, and Questions About Hot Flashes
By: Rebecca Chalker ,Hot Flashes, Menopause, Older Women, Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), The Women's Health Activist Newsletter, Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Deep Dive ArticlesWomen who experience hot flashes for years or even decades after their final menstrual period have one burning (!) question: when will they end?
What Herbal Therapies Are Safe and Beneficial for Menopausal Symptoms?
By: Shaniqua Seth ,Hormone Therapy, Menopause, Menopause Hormone Therapy, Nutrition, Supplements Women’s Health FAQsCertain herbal remedies claim to reduce hot flashes, night sweats, and mood changes. There is, however, a lack of quality scientific studies and evidence that herbal remedies are effective in relieving menopause symptoms, and a lack of knowledge about their...
Menopause and Sexuality
By: NWHN Staff ,Addyi, Flibanserin, Menopause, Sex Drugs for Women, Sexuality Fact Sheets,Health InfoPopular culture tells us that many women lose interest in sex during or after menopausal transition, but those ageist and sexist messages aren’t supported by good scientific research. We want you to have the facts and offer a few helpful...
How to Combat Night Sweats
By: NWHN Staff ,Menopausal Symptoms, Menopause, Night Sweats, Non-Hormonal Options, Older Women, Postmenopausal Women Women’s Health FAQsMany women experience night sweats, even decades after first going through menopause. Thankfully, there are non-hormonal options to help manage them.
Hormone Risk Throughout the Lifespan
By: NWHN Staff ,Birth Control, Hormonal Birth Control, Hormones, Menopause, Menopause Hormone Therapy, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesMillions of women take hormones every day, and yet many don’t fully realize the risks. People often forget that the birth control pill, revolutionary, game-changing medicine, is in fact, a drug. In its early form, “the Pill” had such high...
KEEPS on Keeping On
By: Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS), Menopause, Menopause Hormone Therapy, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter, Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Deep Dive ArticlesThe myth that menopausal hormone therapy prevents heart attack and dementia should have died a swift death after the definitive results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) a dozen years ago. But the concept that hormones might prevent some disease...