Menopause News articles from September 1998

Menopause News archives from September 1998

Assessing Your Health the Mid-life Way.
September 1, 1998... Midlife doesn't have to mean a crisis, but it often means a kind of "midcourse correction" as one friend put it. Now that one realizes that life on this planet as we know it is going to end for each of us -- there is an end now in sight -- the...

New Study Fails to Confirm HRT Heart Protection.
September 1, 1998... A randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled study of 2,763 women with heart disease has failed to confirm earlier observational studies that found lower rates of coronary heart disease (CHD) in women who take postmenopausal hormones. The...

Stunning Statistics.
September 1, 1998... * One in nine women between 45 and 64 has cardiovascular disease, and one in three after 65. * Nearly 500,000 women die of heart disease and strokes each year. (This compares to 46,000 who die of breast cancer.) * Women are twice as...

Champion Golfer Muses about Midlife.
September 1, 1998... Judy Rankin, age 53, was the first professional woman golfer to earn more than $100,000 in one year playing golf. A back injury put her out of competitive play, but she had the good fortune to begin a new career at age 40. As spokesperson for...

Letters.
September 1, 1998... Thank you for a great newsletter! I am finishing up with menopause (I think) and I have found the information in your letter extremely helpful. As a matter of fact, I happen to be a patient of Dr. Helene Leonetti's [see the interview with Dr....

Women Positive about Menopause, Poll Finds.
September 1, 1998... The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) unveiled the results of a Gallup poll that showed that 51% of women between 50 and 65 generally viewed themselves as happier and more fulfilled than they were in younger years. The survey released in...

The Menopause Manager.(Review)
September 1, 1998... The Menopause Manager Mary Ann Mayo & Joseph L Mayo, M.D. Baker Book House Company (350ppgs) Grand Rapids, MI $19.99 The Menopause Manager, a Safe Path for a Natural Change has a refreshingly sensible and comprehensive approach to...

Staying Current.
September 1, 1998... Tamoxifen. The National Cancer Institute recently found in the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial that tamoxifen had reduced breast cancer risk by 45% in women in the trial. However, two studies in Europe found no protective effect. In the Italian...