Topic: University Of Pittsburgh

Are you plagued with hot flashes, night sweats or moodiness? Hormone treatments are the only government approved way to deal with serious vaginal dryness and hot flashes. This treatment was studied by the University of Pittsburgh and they found that acupuncture treatments ...
The risk factors for coronary heart disease increase in women in the year before and the year after their final menstrual period (FMP), making that transition a crucial time to monitor lipid profiles and lifestyle risk factors, according to a study in ...

Watch for depression during and after menopause

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 ...

Weight gain during menopause tied to brain changes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy women who put on weight between the premenopausal and postmenopausal years risk losing nerve cells in the brain, research suggests.Gaining weight is a " highly modifiable" risk factor that may be targeted to prevent or slow ...