Updates

The IMS is pleased to announce a series of seven short, easy-to-understand videos, which will be launched on YouTube on 5th January 2015, to specifically help women access simple, relevant and credible information about the menopause and counteract the misleading information often found on social media sites. The videos cover a whole range of issues… Read More

Dear members   Like a blink of the eye, another year is gone. Those of us who do menopause medicine would say they are happy because 2014 did not produce any 'breaking news' in this field. But studies on postmenopausal women are being published, covering all aspects of women's health in midlife and beyond. As… Read More

Physicians do not deal with oral health, since this is traditionally accepted as the domain of dentists. But the mouth is obviously an important organ since people eat, talk and kiss with it. People usually think of oral health in connection with esthetics: how the teeth and smile look, how the lips look, or whether… Read More

IMS was delighted to hear that Professor Henry Burger, an IMS past President, was awarded a Doctorate of Laws honoris causa, by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia on 16th December 2014.Rod Baber, IMS President commented 'Henry Burger was co founder of Australia's first menopause clinic, The Jean Hailes Clinic and has been a leading researcher in… Read More

Few data exist about restrained eating behavior in postmenopausal women. A recently published paper reports on an online survey in women aged between 40 and 66 years [1]. Overall, about 5000 e-mail invitations were sent, of which 1101 potential participants started to fill out the questionnaire. The drop-out rate (participants who did not fill out… Read More

A recent review written by three Finnish psychiatrists supports the use of estrogens, perhaps together with antidepressants, for depression and anxiety in perimenopausal women [1]. Depressive symptoms are experienced by 15–50% of women during the menopausal transition and up to 30% of perimenopausal depression is severe enough to be regarded as a depressive disorder. This… Read More

In spite of the existence of effective drug therapies for osteoporosis, increasing numbers of menopausal women prefer alternative therapies including dietary supplements of calcium, vitamin D or collagen for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Among them, dietary supplements containing calcium-collagen chelate (CC) have previously demonstrated that it may improve bone mineral density (BMD) and… Read More

The effects of hormone therapy (HT) on mean and visit-to-visit variability (VVV) of blood pressure in postmenopausal women were recorded in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized controlled trials [1]. Blood pressure was measured at baseline and annually in the two WHI HT trials, in which 10,739 and 16, 608 postmenopausal women were randomized to conjugated… Read More

One of the main arguments against extrapolation of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study data to the whole postmenopausal population was that it actually focused on the 60+ year-old women who were treatment-naïve until then [1], whereas in real life most hormone users are 45–55 years old at initiation of therapy. The Kronos Early Estrogen… Read More

The Regional Meeting on Health of Older Women: Policy, Gender and Delivery of Service Issues was held 23-25th September 2014 in Bangkok, aiming to promote the health of older women in countries of South-East Asia Region. Please follow this link to a full report.… Read More