Menopause News

CHICAGO — The benefits of AI-assisted technology in medicine are rapidly extending to obstetrics and gynecology, with programs in development or already deployed to predict everything from mode of delivery during labor to cervical cancer risk.

CHICAGO — In this Healio video exclusive, Pauline M. Maki, PhD, provides three takeaways from her talk on cognition and hormone therapy during menopause at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

CHICAGO — Nonhormonal elinzanetant was associated with fewer moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms compared with placebo for up to 1 year, along with similar long-term positive safety data, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — Voice and respiratory changes can impact women’s health during menopause and hormone therapy plays a role in helping or worsening these changes, according to a speaker at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

CHICAGO — Hormone therapy is beneficial for some women beyond age 65 years to treat ongoing menopausal symptoms that affect their quality of life, according to research reported at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

CHICAGO — Exposure to trauma was tied to increased measures of inflammation and neuronal death for Black women and accelerated brain age indicators regardless of race and ethnicity, researchers reported.

A lack of menopause education for health care professionals has had a direct impact on midlife women seeking care, and a new initiative from The Menopause Society aims to bridge a wide gap in knowledge and training.

Vaginal estrogen, vaginal dehydroepiandrosterone, oral ospemifene and vaginal moisturizers result in short-term improvements in vaginal atrophy symptoms, known as genitourinary syndrome of menopause, but more long-term data are needed.

Aspects of PTSD across several dimensions were associated with menopause-related health in midlife women veterans such as urinary and vasomotor symptoms, vasomotor symptom interference and sexual dysfunction, researchers reported.

Among postmenopausal women with sexual dysfunction, motivational interviewing decreased sexual dysfunction while increasing sexual quality of life and sexual self-efficacy, researchers reported.