Contributed by Mache Seibel, MD Red Hot Mamas Medical Expert Although 90% of women enter menopause between the ages of 45 and 54, for many women, the transition will happen much sooner. For 1/10,000 women, they will enter menopause by ...
Read More »What Your Gynecologist Won’t Tell You About BHRT and Sexuality at Midlife
Contributed by Dr. Michael Goodman Red Hot Mamas Medical Expert In today’s world of corporatized healthcare, where a premium is paid on seeing as many patients in the shortest amount of time as possible, and most medical care- especially peri-menopausal ...
Read More »Did you know April is Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month?
Prevent Blindness America (PBA) has designated April as Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month in an effort to educate women about the steps they can take today to help preserve vision in the future. According to Prevent Blindness America and ...
Read More »Dear Red Hot Mamas- March 2015
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart” ~Victor Hugo Dear Red Hot Mamas, By now we all are looking forward to winter being over. I personally wish for hot flashes to occur when I’m ...
Read More »Dear Red Hot Mamas Experts- March 2015
Dear Red Hot Mamas Experts, I believe I am in the perimenopause. My question is that when my periods were regular I always got migraine headaches. When I reach menopause will they continue? Thanks for your help. Maureen Dear Maureen, ...
Read More »Meet Dr. Natalya Danilyants and Dr. Paul Mackoul, New Members of our “Ask the Experts” Advisory Board!
Dr. Danilyants received her fellowship training in Advanced Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic Surgery through the exclusive Johnson and Johnson/Ethicon EndoSurgery (EES) fellowship program. The EES program, which offered less than 10 positions nationally, accepted Dr. Danilyants after completing her residency at the ...
Read More »Menopause and Sex – A Modern Phenomenon
Contributed by MeLanie Modjoros, MD- Red Hot Mamas Medical Expert/Sexual Medicine Specialist Regardless of whether today’s woman anticipates her menopausal years with hope or dread, she knows menopause is coming. Biologically, menopause is the end of a woman’s reproductive years-she ...
Read More »Good News for Chocolate Lovers
Contributed by Francis Barbieri, Jr., DDS- Red Hot Mamas Medical Expert Know that guilty feeling that creeps in every time you bite into a piece of chocolate? Turns out it’s all for naught. (Well, mostly.) Recent studies show that chocolate ...
Read More »NAMS Challenges New York Times Op-Ed
NAMS Challenges New York Times Op-Ed, Nothing Is Wrong With Your Sex Drive. On Friday, February 27, the New York Times published the opinion piece, Nothing Is Wrong With Your Sex Drive, by Emily Nagoski. The NAMS Board of Trustees ...
Read More »Vitamin D Deficiency Linked More Closely to Diabetes than Obesity
One of the ENDO 2015 abstracts is regarding Diabetes and Vitamin D Deficiency…..Study finds direct correlation between low vitamin D levels, glucose metabolism (This article is re-printed by permission from the Endocrine Society.) People who have low levels of vitamin ...
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