Category: Health & Fitness

New women’s health biotech KaNDy Therapeutics—rumored to have attracted buyout interest from Allergan—has just reported data on its lead product that could enhance its allure. This content was originally published here.

Anxiety often strikes women at the menopause, leaving them worrying about everything and anything, big or small. It can affect their day-to-day activities, friendships and relationships, social life and work routine. Many women are reluctant to seek help, yet there are various effective ways to keep anxiety under control. In the Spring 2018 issue of… Read more…

(Reuters Health) – Menopause symptoms make middle-aged sleep problems more likely for some women, a study from South Korea suggests. “Sleep disorders are the most common complaints during (the) menopause transition and postmenopause,” said senior study author Dr. Hyun-Young Park of the National Research Institute of Health in Chungbuk. “Poor sleep quality and inadequate sleep Read more…

(Naturalhealth365) Of all the discomforts that can accompany menopause – including insomnia, mood changes and hot flashes – the most frustrating of all may be unintended weight gain. The fact is: the lifestyle choices women successfully used to maintain healthy weight in their 20s and 30s may begin to fail in menopause. According to nationally Read more…

I am 53 years old and having heavy bleeding from last five years. Now from last ten months I am having periods after every two months, but it is still heavy. I have gone through ultrasonography and it shows multiple intramural & subserosal fibroids. What should I do? Am I going through normal menopause? – Read more…

How Your Skin Changes During Menopause For all women, menopause is an incredibly complicated process. When your hormones change, your body starts changing: hot flashes, night sweats, dryness, mood swings, hair growth, hair loss, acne, insomnia, and more.  But did you know that menopause significantly effects your skin? The reason that menopause effects the skin is Read more…

It’s a common scenario. A woman in her 50s wakes up feeling nauseous. Dismissing it, she moves through her day, feeling a bit fatigued during her morning walk, even short of breath. Her friends urge her to go to the doctor after she experiences shooting pain in one arm. Despite thinking it’s nothing, she goes Read more…

Women transitioning through menopause are at higher risk for heart disease, according to the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). This research adds to the growing evidence that menopause is a critical time for changes in cardiovascular health. The study helps to underscore the importance of women and their doctors focusing on heart health during Read more…

Living near green spaces is associated with a wide variety of benefits, including a lower risk of obesity, improved attention capacity in children and slower physical decline in old age. In a new study, researchers found that living in a greener neighborhood is also linked to an older age at the onset of menopause. The Read more…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological malignancy in the U.S. and the fourth most common cancer among women. In addition, endometrial cancer incidence rates are on the rise in the western world, suggesting that alterations in environmental factors such as diet, lifestyle, and the vaginal microbiome may be important drivers Read more…

Sometimes, menopause symptoms are worse than just hot flashes and night sweats, and you must learn to cope with them. Here’s how to do this! Even though menopause has not been directly linked with an increase in psychiatric morbidity, many women experience emotional turmoil during the initial phases of menopause. In addition to this, there Read more…