Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is notorious for disrupting hormones and fertility, but it may have some surprising benefits after the age of 40. Ageing seems to naturally reshape the affected ...

For decades, the average age of menopause in the United States has hovered around 51, and most women expected the hormonal turbulence of perimenopause to arrive in their mid-to-late 40s. A new wave of ...

After years of confusing symptoms including weight changes, irregular periods and unwanted facial hair growth, millions of women finally have a clearer path to understanding their bodies. On May 12, a ...

Many years ago, Mary Jane Minkin needed a domain name for her website. Her husband posed a question: “What do you call a French minor in college who becomes a gynecologist?” With that, the pseudonym ...

You’ve heard of perimenopause, the transitional phase leading up to menopause, but you may not know about the whirlwind of physical and emotional changes it brings. For many women, it begins in their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But a whopping 64.3% of women who were 36 to 40 also had “moderate” or “severe” symptoms. Despite this, the researchers found that ...

For women in the perimenopause years, normal is a complicated word. Normal means the pain is real, but nothing is showing up on the X-ray or MRI. It means you leave the appointment with no solutions, ...

You’ve been to three different doctors about your weird collection of symptoms that seem completely unrelated. Your periods disappeared for months, your skin suddenly decided to throw a teenage ...

Bencivenga is the special projects manager at PharmedOut, a rational prescribing project at Georgetown University Medical Center. Fugh-Berman is a professor at GUMC and director of PharmedOut. The ...

Perimenopause has entered the chat. Perimenopause—and its better-known relative, menopause—used to be considered taboo. Not ...

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