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Weight Loss May Ease Hot Flashes
Losing weight may help modestly reduce hot flashes among menopausal women, researchers report.
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Blood Test Helps Predict Menopause
Researchers report that they have developed a simple blood test that can predict -- even among very young women -- how long of a reproductive life she has before menopause.
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Progesterone Alone May Help Hot Flashes
Progesterone alone, when given in a form that's identical to the natural hormone, helps relieve the hot flashes and night sweats experienced by women during menopause, according to a new study.
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Pain Relievers May Reduce Cancer Risk
For some time, studies have suggested that aspirin and other over-the-counter painkillers may protect against breast and ovarian cancer. Now new research may help explain why.
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LDL Rises Around Time of Menopause
Blood levels of LDL "bad" cholesterol increase dramatically in women around the time of menopause, and the rise is not related to aging, new research confirms.
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Hormone Replacement Therapy
A few years ago, the use of hormone replacement therapy looked like a medical mess. For decades, women were told that HRT -- usually a combination of estrogen and progestin -- was good for them during and after menopause. Then, the 2002 results of the Women's Health Initiative study seemed to show just the opposite: hormone replacement therapy actually had life-threatening risks.
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How to Whittle Your Middle After Menopause
Losing weight once you're past menopause can be harder than when you were in your 20s. But it's not impossible.
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Fertility Drug May Be New Hot Flash Treatment
Women suffering severe postmenopausal hot flashes get relief from daily injections of the fertility drug Cetrotide, a small Dutch study shows.
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HRT Is Linked to Deaths From Lung Cancer
Hormone replacement therapy may raise women's risk of dying from lung cancer, a study shows.
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