If you are an older woman, modern medicine would have you believe you've basically got two choices: take a drug for an indeterminate amount of time, or turn into a humpbacked, sexless, dottering o ...
A study from the Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand, is the latest to demonstrate that taking calcium can slow or prevent osteoporosis. ...
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* Drugs or devices: birth-control pills; drugs that reduce female hormones; a blood-clotting agent called tranexamic acid; an intrauterine device -
New evidence suggests that the early loss of naturally produced oestrogen - a side-effect of a hysterectomy - may increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
Women with low bone density after menopause can slow or prevent osteoporosis by a combination of exercise and calcium supplementation to an acceptable degree without the side effects of hormone re ...
Several doctors have reported success in treating the menopause without drugs. Nutritional medicine experts Drs Stephen Davies and Alan Stewart recommend that women undergoing the menopause have ...
New data suggest that a combined oestrogen-proges-togen regime poses a greater risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women than oestrogen alone (JAMA, 2000; 283: 485-91). ...
Menopausal women are being prescribed hormone replacement therapy by their doctors with inadequate consultation or discussion, according to a survey. ...
Before or around the time of menopause, many women complain of a number of symptoms vaginal dryness, loss of libido, loss of urinary control that seem to signal the start of old age. But most of t ...
The drugs industry didn’t get to the top of the commercial tree by being anything other than resilient - as well as creative problem-solvers.
