This is a share of Kelly Casperson, MD ‘You Are Not Broken’ podcast episode 259. In this episode, the panel of menopause expert physicians and nurse practitioners discuss the recent four-part article series on menopause published in The Lancet.
The Practitioner’s Toolkit for Managing the Menopause, developed in 2014, provided an accessible desk-top tool for health-care practitioners caring for women at midlife. To ensure the Toolkit algorithms and supporting information reflect current best practice, the Toolkit has been revised in accordance with the published literature. Read the abstract.
On 6 November 2023, the Senate referred an inquiry into the Issues related to menopause and perimenopause to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 10 September 2024. Submissions are sought by 16 February 2024.
Assoc/ Prof Magdalena Simonis AM was featured on Doctorama talking all things menopause and with @steverobson and @reallykazcooke (write of the new book “It’s The Menopause”)..
The resource “Practitioner’s Toolkit for Managing Menopause” published online by Taylor & Francis Group 31 October 2023, was developed to provide health-care providers with a simple assessment and decision-making tool for use during a clinical consultation. The resource is now available.
Breast cancer is often believed to be the number one cause of death and disability in women, however it is cardiovascular disease. Here’s what every woman needs to know…
Over 70 per cent of women are employed while transitioning through the natural process of menopause, equating to more than 1.6 million Australians. Read the Women’s Agenda article,
From the European Medical Journal (EMJ): With today marking World Menopause Day, and Menopause Awareness Month being celebrated throughout October, we wanted to share some important content recently published by EMJ. We are most excited to include our ‘Menopause Symptoms and Breaking the Stigma’ infographic.
Associate Professor Erin Morton from Flinders University has created Australia’s
On Sunday May 7th, I was invited by a family friend to give a talk on women’s health, which was titled, “What every woman should know from teens to menopause”, at a Mother’s Day brunch at a nearby primary school. As guest speaker, I nominated Counterpart as my preferred charity to deposit the funds raised.
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