New study demonstrates women’s willingness to use vaginal estrogen despite fears of hormones; justifies use of local estrogen in addition to systemic hormone therapy CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 12, 2015)—Local vaginal estrogen (VE) appears to have escaped the shroud of doubt ...

New Study Demonstrates Combined Impact of Smoking and Early Menopause On Mortality  Current smokers who experienced early menopause expected to die 2.6 years earlier CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 4, 2015) — Women may now have yet another reason to quit smoking ...

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) announces the June 2, 2015, online publication of its statement, “The North American Menopause Society Statement on Continuing Use of Systemic Hormone Therapy After Age 65,” and the accompanying editorial, “NAMS Supports Judicious Use ...

The North American Menopause Society Statement on Continuing Use of Systemic Hormone Therapy After Age 65 The 2012 Hormone Therapy Position Statement of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) states that hormone therapy (HT) is the most effective treatment for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 17, 2015)—Hormones may not protect women from heart disease or stroke after menopause, but when combined with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, they may help protect women from these killers, shows a population study from Sweden to be published ...

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 ...

More Women Now Using Compounded Hormones without Understanding the Risks From 28% to 68% of women using hormones at menopause take compounded, so-called “bioidentical” hormones, but women don’t understand the risks of these unapproved, untested treatments, shows an analysis of ...

Study Finds Link between Early Menopause and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) A new-found link between chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and early menopause was reported online 4 February 2015,  in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS). This ...

WHI finding points to age, not menopause, as a risk Press Release from the North American Menopause Society   Removing ovaries at hysterectomy does not increase a woman’s risk of pelvic organ prolapse after menopause. In fact, removing ovaries lowers ...

Does soy in the diet help with hot flashes? It does, but only for women whose bodies can produce the soy metabolite equol, reports a study of American women just published online in Menopause, the journal of the North American ...