Before 1993, researchers seldom included women in clinical trials. And yet, women have dramatically different risk of health conditions than men do. For example,…
By a woman’s late 40s, there is a good chance she’ll have started to experience the early phases of menopause. Menopause isn’t just the…
The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s, is a progressive, life limiting, neurodegenerative condition, which damages and destroys parts of the nervous system, especially…
The signs of menopause can be subtle, and easy to attribute to other causes. That hazy, discombobulated feeling — the forgetfulness, the trouble staying…
As I prepared to board the plane to Amsterdam for the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, an email from the news site Axios caught my…
Of the 30 million living with Alzheimer’s worldwide, two thirds are women. While it was previously thought that it was because women lived longer,…
Over 30 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease worldwide, making it the most common form of dementia. Two thirds of those diagnoses are women….
During menopause, the levels of the sex hormone estrogen drop leading to a group of symptoms — confusion, forgetfulness, difficulty focusing on a task…
Especially as the recent launch of ChatGPT — an alarmingly smart, artificial intelligence-powered text generator that can write a school term paper about as…
Although it has long been known that women are more susceptible to Alzheimer’s than men – two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women –…
When Michele Hall began experiencing alarming memory problems, her doctors initially suggested that she was going through menopause or perhaps experiencing unusual levels of…
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for estrogen — the use of pills, topical gels, and other applications to supplement estrogen production — is used to treat…
Researchers Eef Hogervorst, Emma O’Donnell, and Rebecca Hardy at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England share insights on recent findings that the brain-protecting effects of…
Dozens of leading health advocacy organizations call on Congress to double funding for women’s health research. It’s a spend they say will save lives…
Brain health is intricately bound to the health of our heart. In fact, more and more research is showing that cardiovascular conditions, such as…