Should We Get Our Health Advice from Social Media?
Knowledge may be power — but there can be a limit when it comes to unverified sources online. Author: Hannah Fox Source: Harper's BAZAAR Published: April 19, 2024 In the office of a pri...
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency More than Doubles Midlife Multimorbidity Risk
Women with primary ovarian insufficiency had a higher multimorbidity risk vs. women without. Approximately half of women with primary ovarian insufficiency did not receive appropriate hormone therapy...
Menopause Age Shaped by Genes that Influence Mutation Risk
By mining large-population genetic data sets, researchers identify the key factors controlling menopause timing, and reveal a close connection between reproductive longevity, cancer risk and new muta...
Premature Menopause May Increase Risk of Death from Heart Disease, Cancer
Researchers report that women who enter menopause before age 40 are twice as likely to die from heart disease and four times as likely to die from cancer. Experts say hormone replacement therapy ...
Discovery of a Rare Genotype Causing Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
Scientists at deCODE genetics and collaborators, have identified a sequence variant in the CCDC201 gene that when inherited from both parents homozygous causes menopause on average nine years earlier...
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Goes Undiagnosed in Teenagers.
At 19 years old, Vienna was diagnosed with Primary Ovarian insufficiency (POI) — a condition that affects 1% of women between 15-44. POI causes the ovaries to stop working normally before the age o...
The Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Readiness Initiative
Welcome to the POI Readiness Initiative, brought to you by the Mary Elizabeth Conover Foundation and William Brown Consulting, LLC. We designed this unique initiative to support women with Primar...