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The variations are related to genetics, to age and to hormones. Excessive growth of hair is termed hirsutism.

IT IS a dilemma facing a growing number of young women: can I delay having a baby until my career is more established? A genetic test that could make this decision less of a gamble might be on offer by next year, thanks to the discovery of a gene that seems to predict the rate at which a woman's egg supply diminishes .

A review of a number herbal remedies commonly used to control menopause symptoms reveals little evidence that they are effective.

Pfizer Inc. doesn't have to pay more than $27 million in punitive damages to an Arkansas woman who blamed her breast cancer on the company's menopause drugs, an appeals court ruled in ordering a new trial on that specific award.

Main Category: Menopause Also Included In: Endocrinology ; Women's Health / Gynecology ; Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 29 Oct 2009 - 5:00 PDT Hormone replacement therapy to treat menopausal estrogen deficiency has been in widespread use for over 60 years.

"Symptom-Free Menopause" is the subject when health author Lorna Vanderhaeghe speaks at Choices Market in South Surrey on Nov.

What is menopause? What is perimenopause? Menopause is the point in a woman's life when she has not had a menstrual period for 1 year.

Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood.

Like women, men go through changes as they age. Yet men's midlife changes are much different from women's. Because the word "menopause" means "cessation of menstruation," it doesn't accurately describe what happens to men in midlife.

Medical research has shown that long-term hormone replacement therapy can increase the risk of breast cancer.

A Pfizer Inc. unit must pay an undisclosed amount of punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after taking one of the drugmakera s menopause treatments, a Philadelphia jury said yesterday.

Women's heart attack symptoms are not much different than men's, a new study concludes.

Miserable in menopause, Elizabeth Alsgaard pondered an awful choice: Drenching hot flashes or hormone therapies that might raise the risk of cancer.

What to do if menopause makes you miserable? Start with a visit to your doctor. If you don't have one you really trust, fix that problem before you try to tackle the rest, women's health experts recommend.

Look into the future and see the women of tomorrow! A new study predicts that future women will be a tad shorter, heavier, and more fertilea 'that is, if the women who are currently most successful at producing children are any indication.

During perimenopause or postmenopause , call your doctor about: Menstrual periods that are unusually heavy, irregular, or prolonged .

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The right combination of estrogen and a selective estrogen receptor modulator , which blocks the effects of estrogen in breast tissue, could relieve menopause symptoms and cut breast cancer risk, Yale researchers report in an abstract presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine scientific meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 17-21.

A Winnipeg doctor sounded a warning Monday over a therapy intended to ease the symptoms of menopause in women.

Finding ways to reduce hot flashes allows women to get on with enjoying life. The National Prescribing Service is using World Menopause Day to encourage women to learn about the symptoms of menopause and the options that are available to manage them.