Menopause News articles from March 1998

Menopause News archives from March 1998

Loss of sexual desire not necessarily hormonal.
March 1, 1998... For some women, replacing testosterone, a hormone that both women and men have, but in far lesser amounts in women, is a godsend. One woman doctor I know who is taking it is grateful for her improved mental acuity, increased sex drive,...

Sexual fantasy increases in midlife, says marriage expert.(Interview)
March 1, 1998... J.A. Please tell Menopause News readers a little bit about your self. J.W. I'm a grandmother. I've spent my whole life researching families in divorce and in marriage. I taught for 26 years at the University of California in Berkeley. And now...

What about estriol?
March 1, 1998... The conflicting data regarding the risk of breast cancer in women taking estrogen has left many women confused and frustrated about the best way to protect their health as they age. The pharmaceutical industry's answer is a new class of drugs...

Can traditional Chinese medicine replenish essence?
March 1, 1998... Chinese medicine understands low libido, dry vagina, and painful intercourse as being related to the diminution of jing, the Chinese word for essence, which is stored in the kidney. Jing is the primal stuff of life that we inherit at birth. We...

150 Most-Asked Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy.
March 1, 1998... Ruth S. Jacobowitz William Morrow and Company (305 ppgs) $10 New York, New York 1995 150 Most-Asked Questions about Midlife, Sex, Love and Intimacy: What Women and Their Partners Really Want to Know is the third in health writer Ruth...

Pleasures.
March 1, 1998... Lonnie Barbach, Ph.D., editor Harper Perennial (345 ppgs) $13.50 New York, New York 1984 Never would I have believed that I would be reading "erotica." However, given Dr. Wallerstein's encouragement to do so (see "Sexual Fantasy..."), and...