When Hot Flashes Meet the Heat of Summer
What could be worse than hot flashes in this heat?
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Management of Hot Flashes and Night Sweats: Ask Dr. Pat
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
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There’s good news: New studies indicate that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy may provide drug-free management of the distressing hot flashes and night sweats that often occur after breast cancer treatment and during the menopausal transition.
Ask Dr. Pat: Is hormone replacement therapy dangerous?
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
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Women who had fulfilling professional and personal lives first, then had children later in life, often find themselves in the menopausal transition with demands for the care of younger children, personal relationships, and work that leaves no time for self care. Find a health care professional who will listen to your symptoms of menopausal syndrome and the narrative of your day-to-day existence and who will work with you to design a plan for evaluation and treatment of your symptoms.
Ask Dr. Pat: The Brand-New News About Hormone Therapy
BY Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
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Investigators from the Women’s Health Initiative Hormone Trials are reaffirming conclusions that hormone therapy is not recommended for the prevention of chronic disease, but may remain a reasonable option for the short-term management of menopausal symptoms for younger women.
Hot Town, Hot Flashes—Should You Risk Hormone Therapy?
There is hope for women in the menopausal transition who are hot hot hot in the summer. Patients have lost patience. They don’t want to hear about cold water and cold cloths. Many doctors act as if low-dose, short-term systemic hormone therapy has a risk profile like that of heroin. It’s TIME for some balance here, people!
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The Wednesday Five: Book Giveaways, More Politicos Behaving Badly, and the Bra Whisperer
This week, the blogosphere was done with the latest misbehaving politico, entranced with "The Bra Whisperer," and whispered an offer of free copies of a hot new biography.
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Did You Find Us in the New York Times? Welcome!
“This menopause business is not turning out the way I’d hoped,” writes Michelle Slatalla this week in the New York Times.
How many of us have said that?
In fact, it’s what inspired this website.
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Making It to 92
All the doctors sang the same tune, “You’re getting older.” Generally, I didn’t think I looked or felt like I was approaching 50, whatever that is suppose to look and feel like. But it’s difficult to feel young when the diagnosis is “old.” I did feel sweaty at night, hot during the day and generally irritable all the time, which…
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Study Documents Yoga’s Relief of Hot Flashes; Janet Jackson’s New Fashion Statement; Eloise Cobell Still Fighting For The Land of Her Fathers
First, breathe. Then move: Yoga really can help with menopause symptoms according to researchers in India. And the difference it makes isn’t insignificant: Women in the yoga group also listened to lectures on using yoga to manage stress and other yoga-related topics, while those in the control group heard lectures on diet, exercise, the physiology of menopause, and stress. After…
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New York’s Next Mayor? Christine Quinn’s Dad Helps; A Neck Jab For Hot Flashes; Big Ms. Foundation Donor Tells All; Lipitor for Everyone?
With Dad in tow, the mayor of Libby Drive looks ahead: August may be vacation time for many. For New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, 42, the weeks have been as packed as ever, between a recent summit on cyber-safety and a judge’s ruling on health insurance for nursing home employees. As many reporters (and many of her supporters)…
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