Red Hot Mamas In Charge of Change.

It is a busy time of year for the Red Hot Mamas as we observe National Menopause Awareness Month this September. Our agenda is filled with many events across the country as we spread the importance of menopause to thousands ...

Contributed by Farra Allen, MA, Psych Red Hot Mama indeed, your body temperature is up – you’re HOT! Your emotions are running high, anger is up – you’re HOT! Your sex hormone levels are down – you’re NOT HOT! You ...

“I was very, very active all through my life, from the time I was a child up until ten years ago. I skied, swam, played tennis and golfed. And all of a sudden, I couldn’t do anything anymore. That’s when ...

In the June 2004 issue of the “Menopause Minute,” we explored some menopause and sexuality issues (“Sex and Menopause – What’s Menopause got to do with it?”). When the FDA did not approve Intrinsa1 (which would have been the first ...

“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.” –Brigitte Bardot Attitudes toward menopause directly reflect one’s ability to manage physical and emotional tribulations accompanying aging. It is common to cast away our emotions in an attempt to forget ...

In the past, menopaue research has primarily focused on the physiological and biological changes during a woman’s life. However, clinical studies in menopause and neuropsychology have become more popular with fascinating results surfacing over the past few years. It is ...

Many women report feeling more absentminded, forgetful and just not being there – able to listen, but not always to attend – because they’re experiencing a transient loss of awareness during their menopausal years. Some women experience blank outs: forgetting ...

The holiday season is a wonderful time of year for most people, but it can also be a hectic and crazy time, and so many of us end up feeling exhausted, stressed and overwhelmed. People are running around shopping, decorating, ...

The word hysterectomy comes from the Greek word “hystero” which means “womb.” The first hysterectomy was performed more than 16 centuries ago by a Greek physician named Soranus. As a result of the high mortality rate (90%) at that time, ...

There are differences between the sexes when it comes to health and disease prevalence, manifestations and causes of death. The field of study, known as Gender Based Biology, identifies biological and physiological differences between women and men. Men have a ...