Menopause News articles from March 1999

Menopause News archives from March 1999

More Targeted Products Define New Options.
March 1, 1999... Every few months new menopause products come along to entice a woman into thinking this will be a magic pathway to improved health or at least feeling "like myself" once again. Maybe the product will take away perimenopausal discomforts and be...

Injecting Hormones Is Not a First Line Approach.
March 1, 1999... According to a menopause specialist in San Francisco, Calif., injecting hormones has not been a favored delivery system for hormones for many years. John Arpels, M.D., an associate clinical professor in the University of California Department...

Parenting My Parent.
March 1, 1999... (ed.- At midlife, some of us tend to become our parents' parents. We marvel at their independence, stubbornness, and grace under fire. Or we fume at their intrangiency and barriers. We look at them and see our own later years. As ever, our...

Letters.
March 1, 1999... I've been receiving your newsletter for five years and I always find all of the information helpful. However, I'd like to point out that whenever you write about HRT, estrogen, or testosterone, you never refer to taking them by injection. I...

From the Bookshelf.(Review)
March 1, 1999... The Estrogen Alternative Steven R. Goldstein, M.D. & Laurie Ashner G.P. Putnam's Sons (189 ppgs) $19.95 New York, N.Y. 1998 The Estrogen Alternative. What Every Woman Needs to Know about Hormone Replacement Therapy and SERMs, the New...

Staying Current.
March 1, 1999... Soy and cholesterol, bone density. A study of 66 postmenopausal women with high cholesterol found that intake of soy products rich in isoflavones was associated with an increase in HDL (the good guys) and a decrease in LDL (the bad guys), but...