That’s the Way it is: Music Therapy in Behavioral and Cognitive Health
Music Therapy in Behavioral and Cognitive Health Background Women diagnosed with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) are at risk of experiencing information overload, which, when combined w...
New Insights into Primary Ovarian Insufficiency and Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune Disease is Increased in Women with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Recent research has highlighted a significant link between primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) and autoimmune diseases i...
Why Celebrity Menopause Activism Can Hinder as Well as Help Women
There are some drawbacks to celebrity menopause activism – they don’t always get their messaging right. Menopause, once a taboo topic, is now boldly addressed by celebrities like Davina McCall...
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...
Excess of Severe Autoimmune Diseases in Women with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency
Spontaneous premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), defined as cessation of ovarian function before the age of 40 years, affects 1% of women and has various negative health- and quality-of-life-rela...
The Association Between Primary Ovarian Insufficiency and Increased Multimorbidity
The purpose of this study was to determine the association between age of menopause and multimorbidity in a large Canadian prospective cohort. It was hypothesized that participants with earlier age a...
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...
Breast Cancer Is Increased in Women With Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) is defined as primary hypogonadism in women before the age of 40 years. Autoimmune causes, FMR1 premutations, and X chromosome deletions and translocations account...
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...
