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A woman's sex life is not only possessed while still young, but also to those who began entering the phase of menopause. However, in this condition, most women are likely to have vaginal dryness. Reduced of moisture in this female genital organ is related to the changes that occur in the ...

Keishi-Bukuryu-Gan is a popular herbal remedy and most recommended by gynecologists in Japan to treat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. In this country, this herbal remedy has been regulated as a prescription drug for menopausal symptoms with rare of side effects. Whether the effects may have similar result in the ...

A new study adding more evidences that coffee consumption reduce the lack of estrogen receptor that associated with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer. This type of breast cancer risk often linked to postmenopausal women. As previous study has increase the concern regarding to coffee intake associated with breast cancer risk, current study ...

The vasomotor menopausal symptoms of hot flashes that typically last for a few minutes is described as declining estrogen levels associated with menopause that characterized by a sensation of warmth of the face and upper body, flushing of the skin, sweating, rapid heart rate, irritability, and headache. An observational study led ...

In the preclinical studies, certain neuroactive progesterone metabolites produce sedative-like effects. Due to analysis further effects, the researchers from Belgia and U.S. enrolled and randomized eight women (aged range 49 to 74 years) to receive a 300 mg capsule of progesterone or placebo at night over a period of 3 weeks, ...

In the previous study, compared with women who did not experienced with vasomotor menopausal symptoms (VMS), the researcher has showed increased total cholesterol level among women who experienced with VMS, including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), glucose level, low-density lipoprotein level, triglyceride level, and ...

The benefits of Black Cohosh which usually used in natural treatment for menopause and common used in easing hot flashes so far remain pro and contra. As earlier studies said that there is small number of damages liver cases associated with black cohosh due to ease menopause symptoms, particularly in the ...

There is a trend for more women to be undergoing vaginal hysterectomies surgery at earlier ages. An estimated about one in three women undergoing this surgery in the United States, and one in five women in the United Kingdom. As it is generally a safe procedure and cures many gynecological problems and ...

In the first study with clinic setting rather than a randomized clinical trial to look at the effects of Aromatase Inhibitors (AIs), the researchers found that AIs are linked to new onset of a wide array of symptoms, such as hot flashes, chest pain, breast sensitivity, night sweats, hair ...

A new study said that estrogen therapy both alone or with progestin increased the risk of nephrolothiasis in healthy postmenopausal women. This findings showed after the researchers observed data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) of estrogen-alone and estrogen-plus-progestin trials. Published in the October 11th of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the ...

Compared with natural menopause group, Oophorectomy before menopause could impact to decreasing of estrogen and risks of cardiovascular events, particularly carotid intima media thickness (IMT). Previous studies had been found the relationship between performed of bilateral oophorectomy before the age of 45 years and increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. The lead authors ...

In the study that reported in July 21, 2010 of Menopause and archived in The Journal of The North American Menopause Society, which is involved 493 women who interviewed by telephone after 1 year discharge from the hospital for myocardial infarction (MI), the investigator found that compared to women who ...

Cerebral aneurysms is a a group of brain dysfunction related to disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery or vein causes a localized dilation or balooning of the blood vessel. According to recent study results, frequent fluctuations of estrogen during ...

The therapy of ovarian tissue cryopreservation might have greater increasing of life expectancy of young female cancer patients who need advance treatment for cancer such as aggressive chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplantation. However, this therapy according to the researchers lead to loss of both endocrine and reproductive functions, resulting in ...

Lasofoxifene is non-steroidal selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) used as prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and vaginal atrophy. Despite there is increased risk of thromboembolism from Lasofoxifene, however, according to recent study, it does not increase the risk for endometrial cancer or hyperplasia in postmenopausal women. In overall favorable-risk profile of Lasofoxifen ...

Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) is class of medication used in the diabetes mellitus type 2 treatment. Instead the adverse effect known currently such as increased risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack, edema, water retention, and including the incidence risk of hepatitis and liver failure from older type of Thiazolidinediones that make ...

The US Food and Drug Administration in July 29, 2010, announced that physician should advise women who use Evaminst (Ther-Rx; an estradiol transdermal spray, a prescribed to reduce hot flashes in menopausal women) to prevent children from coming into contact with their medicated skin, to avoid possible adverse event such ...

Despite many Soy product maker claim that it has benefits to heart disease (labeling with diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol) and FDA issued to re-evaluate those ...

The model of schizopheria symptoms psychotically better known with loss of Laten Inhibition (LI). In the animal study (rat) showed loss of LI linked to low level of hormone. Based on animal study result by researchers at Tel Aviv University, Israel, loss ...

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy categorized natural therapy. At the first time. But, as many researcher investigated more deep in this therapy, pharmaceutical company starts making drug with same function. Conjugated equine estrogen as hormone replacement therapy. Later report said there is a risk due to synthetic conjugated estrogen's from pharmaceuticals drugs. Then ...

Here is some safety precaution before you take menopause diet pills of Menozac. This diet pill contain Black Cohosh. If you have liver disease or at least have clinical history from your family associated with liver ...

Approximately perimenopause period about three to six years during and when menstrual cycle become erratic and estrogen level fall and will ending with the cessation of menstruation. Common symptom in this period such as; - abnormal swelling caused excessive fluid in the tissue - sweating that caused if intense heat feeling - rapid heartbeat - ...

Postmenopause is a time when most of the distress of the menopausal changes have faded. Hot flashes may seem milder or less frequent; energy and emotional levels may seem to have stabilized. Generally phase of postmenopausal starting in 12 months since the last menstrual period. Many women with this condition take drug ...

Menopause is not disease or health problem. But the symptoms of menopause such as losing a libido, hot flush, excessive sweat, headaches, itching make the skin feel burned, insomnia, fatigue, arthritis, joint pains, irritable and anxiety, and much more, make the women despondent, distress and become complicated to others health problems ...

For many years, medical professionals have known that menopause may risk to heart disease. But, don't know for sure why this happened. Now current research found that when women got older (almost average 50 years old or between 40-60 years old), the cholesterol levels ...

Menopause that usually starts experienced by women at the age of 45 years or older usually gives unpleasant symptoms and even suffering. Although the symptoms are individual, but generally the menopausal women will experience some of complaints, both physically and mentally with varying degree ...

Natural herbs for menopause mostly contain herbal components called phytoestrogens which have chemical structures similar to human estrogen. This component will help balance a woman's estrogen level by attaching themselves to the body's estrogen receptor sites. Phytoestrogens can decrease estrogen levels in perimenopausal women and increase estrogen levels in postmenopausal women. Menopause is ...

Study challenges old notion that menopause starts in the ovaries. Some of the most unpleasant symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes and night sweats have long been believed to originate in the ovaries. But, a new research challenges that assumption, and instead suggests that menopausal symptoms, at least in part, ...

A new findings said that now menopause symptoms can be predicted early. The number of eggs left in a woman's ovaries are like the grains of sand in an hourglass, ticking away the hours on her biological clock. Researchers now say they may be able to predict when that clock will wind ...

While you may experience the misery of hot flashes and mood swings as you enter menopause, one thing you can't blame on the "change" is memory loss. In the latest study that exonerates menopause as a cause of impairing the ability to recall, Taiwanese researchers compared the memory of hundreds of ...