Menopause

21 03, 2024

Why is there a shortage of oestrogen patches in Australia… again?

2024-03-21T13:17:50+10:00March 21st, 2024|Categories: Drugs & Therapies, Medications and therapies, Menopause, Reproductive health, Trans health, Women’s health|Tags: , , , , , |

This article was written by A/Prof Ada Cheung and originally appeared in Pursuit News. Oestrogen skin patches deliver the hormone directly into the bloodstream. Picture: Alamy Since 2020 or so, there have [...]

5 09, 2019

Does hormone therapy really increase breast cancer risk?

2019-10-01T16:19:20+10:00September 5th, 2019|Categories: Medications and therapies, Menopause, Research Updates|Tags: , , , |

For women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), it is hard not to worry after new reports of a link found between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer. So is this true? And what does this [...]

27 05, 2019

What to expect as menopause approaches

2019-10-01T16:09:22+10:00May 27th, 2019|Categories: Drugs & Therapies, Medications and therapies, Menopause, Reproductive health, Women’s health|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Approaching the end of my reproductive years, I like to think menopause will simply mean the end of my periods and [...]

3 04, 2019

When to worry about irregular periods

2021-08-23T08:48:45+10:00April 3rd, 2019|Categories: Hormone biology, Reproductive health, Women’s health|Tags: , , , , , , |

For many women, that ‘time of the month’ isn’t actually a monthly occurrence at all. In fact, about one third of women do not have regular periods. This can mean that the time between periods [...]

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