Midlife Latinas deserve to be in the research too
We are a mother and daughter, and we are Latina, so when an editorial in the journal Menopause opened with the line that midlife Latinas' health matters, it landed somewhere...
Behind the Science
Does early menopause cause diabetes? What 146,764 women revealed
If your periods stopped early, or stopped because of surgery, there is a good chance someone has handed you a longer list of things to worry about. Heart disease is...
Menopause Is a Heart-Health Checkpoint. New Research Says So.
For most of us, the menopause conversation starts and ends with hot flashes, sleep and mood. Heart health rarely makes the list. Yet midlife is exactly when the heart deserves...
Hot flashes and sleep: does the timing matter more than the count?
You know the night. You did everything right. You went to bed at a reasonable hour, the room was cool, the phone was face down. And then a wave of...
It's the chats with colleagues that get me through: what menopause at work is really like
There is a particular kind of quiet a lot of us know well. The quiet of sitting at your desk, losing the word you needed mid-sentence, feeling the heat rise...
Why midlife brain fog is real, measurable, and not what you fear
You walk into the kitchen and forget why. A name you have known for twenty years sits just out of reach. A word vanishes mid-sentence and you stand there, blank,...
