The following post first appeared on Dr. Allen’s Huffington Post blog, as an urgent message to her fellow physicians. — Ed.
Patients with menopausal syndrome are flocking to infomercial doctors. They [...]

Bioidentical is not a scientific term. It is a term made up by savvy market research gurus to describe certain plant-derived hormones distributed by compounding pharmacies.
The use of the word” [...]

Dear Dr. Pat,
I read your medical advice to menopausal women, and I have a sense that you are not a big fan of hormone therapy. I am now forty-nine years [...]

If I worked at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, I would ask to be put in charge of monitoring the financially and self-promotion-driven epidemics of “BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONE [...]

Dear Dr. Pat,
I am 44 years old and know that the symptoms that I am having are really related to menopause.  I am having less frequent bleeding ranging [...]

‘New Orleans Is Not A City That People Leave.’ Tonight, on PBS on January 6th, we can learn what June Cross,
filmmaker and Columbia University journalism professor, has been doing in [...]

By Patricia Yarberry Allen
This is a case study that couples in midlife should read.  There can never be too much communication in the bedroom.
Sam and Linda got married in [...]

Dear Dr. Pat,
I am 46 years old and have missed 4 menstrual periods this last year. In fact, I have had no period for the last two months. My [...]

Dear Dr. Poyner,
I have been using Vagifem, a vaginal estrogen, twice a week because I had pain with intercourse without it. This has worked really well along with a lubricant [...]

A new 'Cover Girl' for the new power age: Once, the largest cosmetic company in America wanted at its center the youngest, dewiest sylph around. Now, says the New York [...]