Topic: North American Menopause Society
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A couple of yoga sessions a week could help ease sleep problems and other effects of menopause, a small study suggests.The study, reported in the journal Menopause, included postmenopausal women diagnosed with insomnia."We are not saying that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who spend a lot of time exercising or eat a heart-healthy diet appear to reach menopause earlier, a new Japanese study shows.While that doesn't prove work-outs and healthy foods are directly responsible, researchers say the findings ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many women who get screened for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis may not actually need such testing, a new study suggests.A number of expert guidelines say that women age 65 or older should get a bone scan to ...
Women bothered by menopause-related hot flashes but reluctant to take hormone replacement therapy may soon have another FDA-approved option available to them. A new extended release version of the anticonvulsant drug gabapentin proved to be effective in both preventing and reducing the ...
Depomed, Inc. (Nasdaq: DEPO) today announced presentations of clinical data of Breeze 1 and 2 at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on October 8, 2010. Both Breeze 1 and 2 are Phase 3 trials that evaluated ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk for major depression more than doubles while women are going through menopause and afterward, according to research presented this week at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego.Recent studies have ...
Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its subsidiary Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s New Drug Application (NDA) for Synthetic Conjugated Estrogens-A (SCE-A) 0.625 mg/g Vaginal Cream. SCE-A Vaginal Cream is a plant-derived local estrogen product ...
The North American Menopause Society's 19th annual meeting took place Sept. 24-27 in Orlando, Fla., attracting attendees from a membership that includes 2,000 experts in basic science, medicine, nursing, sociology, psychology, anthropology, epidemiology, nutrition and education. "We covered the brain first, then ...