Menopause

How Safe Are Low-Dose Estrogen Vaginal Creams?

By NWHN Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Comments Off on How Safe Are Low-Dose Estrogen Vaginal Creams?

As 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 | Oct 26, 2017 | Comments Off on What Are My Options for Treating Hot Flashes?

Many 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 symptoms than others. As a result some women seek various treatment methods to help alleviate the intensity of menopausal symptoms.

Menopause and Hair Loss

By Ali Tweedt | Jun 29, 2017 | Comments Off on Menopause and Hair Loss

Menopause 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 | May 11, 2017 | Comments Off on What Options Are Available to Manage Hot Flashes?

There 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 | May 9, 2017 | Comments Off on Clues, Confirmations, and Questions About Hot Flashes

Women 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 | Nov 10, 2016 | Comments Off on What Herbal Therapies Are Safe and Beneficial for Menopausal Symptoms?

Certain 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 long-term safety.

Menopause and Sexuality

By NWHN Staff | Sep 9, 2016 | Comments Off on Menopause and Sexuality

Popular 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 remedies.

How to Combat Night Sweats

By NWHN Staff | Aug 18, 2016 | Comments Off on How to Combat Night Sweats

Many 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 | May 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Hormone Risk Throughout the Lifespan

Millions 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 hormone levels and negative side effects that women, and the women’s health community, protested — and succeeded in making it safer.

KEEPS on Keeping On

By Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD | Nov 6, 2015 | Comments Off on KEEPS on Keeping On

The 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 —in some women, somewhere, sometime, somehow — just keeps rising from the grave.