Is the FDA Looking Out for Women or Wyeth?

Note: This Blog is now being published at www.menopausetheblog.com  Please visit and continue reading about Menopause at this new URL.   The FDA announced that it will be “cracking down” on pharmacies that sell customized hormone mixtures prescribed by physicians to alleviate menopause symptoms.   This is the latest move in an ongoing debate over the growing [...]

Exercise Doesn’t Alleviate Hot Flashes After All

Contrary to what we’ve read (and hoped was true), exercise is not a cure for hot flashes, according to a study whose results were just published in the January issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.  Researchers had hoped to prove that exercise could be an alternative to HRT for women suffering from hot [...]

43 Million Hot Flashes

There are 43 million women of menopausal age (45-54) in this country alone and if my conversations with friends on both coasts are any indication, the collective hot flashes of this demographic group must be contributing to global warming.  Now that I’m one of them, I’m noticing other “members” of this tribe wherever I go.  At a [...]