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A new study finds that postmenopausal women who take estrogen are much more likely to pee their pants than women who have never taken the hormone. More »
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Here's some confusing news: exercising a lot could make you hit menopause earlier. Which is good for your risk of breast cancer, but possibly bad for your heart and bones. More »
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Instead of I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, last night's season finale of Real Housewives of New York was like an episode of I Didn't Know I Was Menopausal. The fact that Ramona thought—at 55 years old—that missing a period meant that she must be pregnant really speaks to one of two things: How delusional she is about her own mortality or how she stupid she thinks the audience is. It really makes one wonder if she is trying to follow the Bethenny Frankel model of success, in which you star on a reality show, launch a booze line, take a home pregnancy test on camera, get a spinoff show, and then sell the booze line for an exorbitant amount of money. Whatever the case, it goes without saying that Ramona is indeed not pregnant, nor will she ever be. More »
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Horrible neologism alert: "manopause" has entered the vernacular. More »
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A new study says taking combined estrogen and progestin to combat menopausal symptoms ups not just women's risk of breast cancer, but their risk of dying from it. But some doctors think new, lower-dose therapies may be safer. More »
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• According to a study of 71 women between the ages of 18 and 48, some 87% of ladies use excessive vocals to "manipulate their partners" into coming to an orgasm more quickly. But guess what? Men fake it, too. More »
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A new blood test that could accurately predict when women will enter menopause may offer new information — but it's not going to solve all of women's family-planning problems. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5574301&view=rss&microfeed=true According to The Guardian, Dr. Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani of Iran is set to present the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology with a study featuring a blood test that can accurately pinpoint when a woman will hit menopause. [Guardian] More »
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So it's very rare (affecting only 2% of middle-aged men), but there are some symptoms which, when concurrent with lowered testosterone levels, indicate men can have menopausal issues. And that's all the information you need to turn the joke-cracking tables. More »
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Veterinarians believe they've discovered why more dogs are experiencing symptoms like fur loss, swollen vulvas, and abnormally small penises: Hormone creams used by menopausal owners. Luckily, applying creams using gloves and covering the area with clothing eliminates the problem. [PetConnection.com] More »
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According to Angela Lansbury, you can "attract attention as a feminine, sexual person" after menopause by laying on the floor and wiggling sensually in a jumpsuit, rubbing your entire body with lotion, and thinking sexy thoughts in the bathtub. [YouTube] More »
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• Last year, Hannah Burge, then 15, became Britain's youngest Botox user when her mother, the "Human Barbie" and record-holder for most surgically altered, injected her with the toxin. "Appearance is important to me," Burge said. She continued: More »
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• Possibly the most fucked-up headline we've read today: "Women given fetish degrees: A university registrar handed out forged degree certificates to black African women in exchange for spanking sessions to satisfy his kinky sexual desires, a court heard." • More »
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Two articles in Saturday's New York Times — one about premature ejaculation and the other about menopause — shed light on how the pharmaceutical industry treats men and women's sexual "problems." More »
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•  Chinese officials are cracking down on an illegal condom factory in the Hunan province, which produces "counterfeit" condoms that offer little to no protection. To make matters worse, the condoms were packaged by shirtless men without any sterilization. •  More »
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Writer Dana Jennings writes on the New York Times's "Well blog" about his time "being a woman" — the time in which, while fighting an aggressive prostate cancer, he found himself taking hormone suppressants... at the same time his wife was going through menopause. More »
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New research has found genes that influence the onset of menstruation and menopause — and later menstruation is linked with a lower risk of breast and endometrial cancer. [NewScientist, LiveScience] More »
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The Jack In The Box commercial at left features an older woman, which might be progressive, if it didn't suggest that smoothies prevent menopausal women from getting hot flashes and acting like crazy bitches. [Shakesville] More »
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In this ad, Parke Davis, a pharmaceutical company known for selling cocaine back in the day, offers to help menopausal women avoid "imaginary ailments" and "family scenes." Click to enlarge. [Vintage Ads] More »
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• New evidence released in the Caylee Anthony case: Five days after Caylee's disappearance, Casey Anthony allegedly wrote in her diary: "I have no regrets...I just hope that the end justifies the means." • More »
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• 23-year-old Christina Raines, mother of two and Drew Peterson's newest girlfriend, has just moved in with him. Her family and friends are understandably upset. • More »
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More than ten years after Viagra came onto the scene (heh heh), drug companies are on the verge of offering a libido boosting patch to older women. Proctor & Gamble has been testing its Intrinsa testosterone patch for several years, Reuters reports, and according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, women receiving the "highest dose of testosterone" got a "modest but meaningful" boost in their sex life. More »
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According to a recent study, 1 in 10 Italian women surveyed said that stress incontinence (or involuntary leakage of urine) caused them to give up their favorite athletic endeavor. The study surveyed 679 women who were all still experiencing regular periods and took part in non-competitive sports. Of the women, 1 in 7 admitted to already suffering from stress incontinence and 1 in 3 of those affected said that stress incontinence occurrs solely during sport activities. The most "risky" sports for involuntary leakage are basketball, "athletics," and tennis or squash. [Eureka Alert] More »
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Several new studies have researchers more confident that hormone replacement therapy is a beneficial treatment for symptoms of menopause. Estrogen was once widely prescribed to menopausal women, but the treatment fell out of favor after a 2002 federal study suggested it may increase the risk of breast cancer and stroke. Now new research has prompted the North American Menopause Society to recommend that if women start hormone therapy around the time their periods end it may minimize the risks presented in the 2002 study and increase the benefits. Their position is supported by a new study published in the British Medical Journal, which found that women given hormone replacement therapy experienced fewer menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, aching joints and muscles, insomnia and vaginal dryness. [Newsweek] More »
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Your biological clock? Yeah, it's ticking. But it's hard to know how fast. A new study out of University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands says while menopause for most women begins sometime between 40 and 50, there is no real "average" age that marks the lack of fertility, meaning that some women may begin menopause as early as 30 and some well into their 60's. In other words, feel free to become more paranoid not knowing what end of that spectrum your body will fall. Happy Monday! [UPI] More »
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"Menopause is evolution's way of solving the age-old tensions between wives and their mothers-in-law," reads a headline in the Daily Mail. Michael Cant, a biologist at Exeter University, says: "When more than one female breeds, every mouth you feed is one less for your own." Apparently older women stop being fertile so they can help raise the grandchildren, which is an advantage. It may be biologically sound, but why does the paper make this theory seem like women are all about conflict and rivalry? In any case, good news: Another report claims that even though erectile dysfunction in males is clearly linked to the development of cardiovascular disease, the same is not true for females. Decreased sexual satisfaction in postmenopausal women is not predictive of cardiovascular disease, say researchers at Boston University School of Medicine. [Daily Mail, UPI] More »
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A new study shows that the hormone replacement pills many women take post-menopause are linked to cancer. Dr. Marcia Stefanick, a Stanford University School of Medicine professor, says that with estrogen and progestin pills, "the overall picture is clearly one of harm," as these pills have been shown to increase the risk of cancer by 24%. USA Today suggests that women who need relief from post-menopausal symptoms should "ask their doctors about alternatives to hormone pills, such as patches or topical creams." If they must use hormone pills, they should use the lowest dose for the shortest amount of time. [USA Today] More »
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• A new study says that women are more stressed than men. We really don't have time to be reading and writing about studies like this because we totally have a big Powerpoint presentation to get and we are, like, about to pull our hair okay? Gawd! [Feminist.org]

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A twofer from Down Under: Luana De Favari, an Australian barmaid famous for crushing beer cans between her breasts and dangling spoons from her nipples was fired and fined $1,000 for breaching the liquor control act. Her partner in crime, off-duty bar worker Tracey Leslie, was fined $500 for aiding and abetting the spoon-hanging. In other news from Oz, mine workers are attending "Toolbox Talks" — classes on menopause and foreplay that are being offered to boost morale at the Bulga mine because according to the higher-ups, a sexually frustrated miner 'can get mighty grumpy at work' and affect production." [Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald] More »
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This afternoon, from the Bush compound in Crawford, Texas, came the news that First daughter Jenna Bush and her boyfriend of two years, Karl Rove minion and Republispawn Henry Hager, are engaged and immediately, an angry rain threatened to overcome the entire state of Texas. Not that those incidents were related! Because unlike some people, we don't really believe there's guy in the sky who controls the weather. (Speaking of splashes, an over-the-top wedding does not a happy marriage make!) Anyway, if they manage to weather the storm, here's the shit Jenna and Henry can look forward to as they begin their life together: More »
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• Italian women over the age of 40 are having more babies than similarly-aged women in any other western industrialized country. But the U.S. is not far behind! [Guardian]

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• Motorcycle manufacturers like Harley-Davidson are attempting to appeal more to potential female customers by designing riding gear with rhinestones (ugh), creating motorcycles that sit lower to the ground, and hosting the cock-rocket equivalent of Tupperware parties. [NYTimes]

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• Women who smoke are more likely to go through early menopause; like, before the age of 45. [DailyMail]

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• It's like Lost, but with a female heroine instead of well, Jack. Or, er, maybe not. Anyway, a group of investigators is set to visit an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific to answer question of what happened to Amelia Earhart once and for all. [CBSNews]

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More on the issue of new technologies that delay or do away with menstruation altogether. Writing in today's USA Today, Kim Painter reports on the opposition to period-less womanhood, singling out health experts, a documentary filmmaker, and a SF-based artist who has created paintings made of her menstrual blood ("I wanted to make something beautiful out of something that is usually thought to be disgusting," says Vanessa Tiegs). More »
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We really like it when women can joke openly about women problems. Like when we are bleeding heavily (hint: now) we like to say things like "I'm bleeding like a miscarriage." And so we love the librarians profiled in today's NYT menopause story who had the sense of humor to annex a particularly frigid office in their building with a sign proclaiming it "The Hot Flash Room." Too bad some people aren't laughing so much! More »
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A few months ago, Lucky magazine changed its title logo in a small but significant way: It got rid of its period. Most people probably didn't notice the alteration, as the period — like the word "Lucky" itself — was designed to fall off the margin of the magazine's cover in what we assume was some sort of attempt on the art director's part to be avant-garde or whatever design aesthetic is hot right now among corporate creative-types. But anyway, we noticed... and disapproved. Suddenly, a magazine that had come across as confident, insistent and declarative seemed suddenly common and hesitant. Insecure, even! So why the punctuation change? Was it because the magazine discovered how wealthy its readers are and became a little less sure of itself? Was it the new trend in menopause? We have some thoughts that we'd like you to weigh in on... after the jump. More »
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• Rosie O'Donnell didn't much like that split-screen during her fight with Elisabeth Hassebeck today. [People]

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• Are geeks the new rock stars? They're rich, talented, and, apparently, good in the bedroom. [Wired]

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• In case you haven't heard, Tennessee's Lady Vols basketball team has won the NCAA tournament after a 9-year-drought. The news reminded us of one of our favorite pieces of literary non-fiction, Madelaine Blais' In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle, which underscores the role of sports as a self-esteem builder among young women. But we digress. Go Vols! [SportsIllustrated]

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