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The most common symptoms of menopause – which can hormone therapy treat?

What symptoms reliably indicate the start of perimenopause or menopause? And which symptoms can menopause hormone therapy help with? Here’s what the evidence says.

Medicine and health

Menopausal women don’t all need to check – or increase – their testosterone levels

Women are increasingly seeking testosterone therapy to treat fatigue and brain fog. But there’s no evidence it improves symptoms of menopause.

Medicine and health

Menopause meets politics: Where governments fail in women’s health

About 10% of Australian women experience early menopause before the age of 45, yet it's an aspect of women's health to which state and federal governments pay little more than lip service.

Medicine and health

The devastation of an early menopause diagnosis

About 10% of women stop having periods and reach the end of their fertile years much earlier than expected.

Medicine and health

Making sense of menopause

Evidence indicates that women who take menopausal hormone therapy have a marginally increased risk of breast cancer, but it's equally important to talk about the benefits of the treatment.

Medicine and health

Search result for: Hormone Replacement therapy

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The most common symptoms of menopause – which can hormone therapy treat?

Menopausal women don’t all need to check – or increase – their testosterone levels

Menopause meets politics: Where governments fail in women’s health

The devastation of an early menopause diagnosis

Making sense of menopause