Menopausal symptoms can start several years before menopause and last for 5 years (or more) afterwards and negatively impact daily living and well-being. To date, the most effective and reliable therapy for menopausal vasomotor symptoms (e.g., hot flushes, night sweats) is hormone therapy (HT). But many women are either hesitant to consider this option or are not candidates for HT due the incre...

The menopause, defined as the end of the last menstrual period, occurs at a median age of 53 years (Hardy 2005). The change in hormone levels during the perimenopause and menopause, particularly the decline in levels of oestrogen, can cause acute menopausal symptoms; for example, about 30–70% of women in Western countries will experience vasomotor symptoms, such as hot flushes and night sweats ...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Background Until recently, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was a popular treatment for vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes and night sweats) but evidence1,2 reporting adverse effects of hormone therapy and negative media reports have raised important questions about its use. It seems that both clinicians’ and patients’ confidence in the use of HR...

Since the first flash memory patent issued on October 6, 1987, flash memory’s multiple useful characteristics, including nonvolatility, in-circuit reprogrammability, low power consumption, and high density, have led it to become the fastest growing memory segment in recent years. Mobile computing and communication have driven the demand for flash memories. Nascent applications, such as digital ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) and hormone therapy (HT) on vasomotor symptoms in women with a history of breast cancer. METHODS Forty-five women were randomized to EA (n = 27) for 12 weeks or HT (n = 18) for 24 months. The number of and distress caused by hot flushes were registered daily before, during and up to 24 months after start of treatment. RESULTS In ...

File system designs are undergoing rapid evolution to exploit the potentials of flash memory. However, the internal parallelism, a key feature of flash devices, is hard to be leveraged in the file system level, due to the semantic gap caused by the flash translation layer (FTL). We observe that even flash-optimized file systems have serious garbage collection problems, which lead to significant...

BACKGROUND Research demonstrates that most of the menopausal symptoms and problems are the reflection of individual and social circumstances rather than the endocrine events of the menopause. As majority of women live 30 years or more through postmenopausal period, treatment and following up their problems during this period is among the main duties of a midwife. The aim of this study is to det...

Hot flashes continue to be a troublesome problem for menopausal women the world over. After >50 y of research, we still do not understand the etiology and mechanism of hot flashes, nor do we know how estrogen, the major pharmaceutical treatment, works to reduce hot flashes. We are gaining insight into sociocultural complexities that may affect how and whether women report hot flashes. And we ar...