Menopause

City Life

Four Boston-Based Breakthroughs in Menopause Research

Women’s midlife health is having a long-overdue moment. As social media influencers push perimenopause wonder cures with unprecedented fervor, Boston’s medical community is meanwhile quietly […]

Life & Style

The Truth About Hormone Therapy for Women Today

There was a time, back in the ’90s, when doctors were handing out hormone therapy pills to midlife women as casually as candy. After all, […]

Wellness

You Don’t Need to Shoot a Laser into Your Vagina, After All (Unless You Really Want to)

As part of a series on perimenopause, we asked Dr. Jan Shifren, director of Mass General’s Midlife Women’s Health Center, to weigh in on four […]

Wellness

Help! I’m Perimenopausal and My Instagram Feed Won’t Stop Selling Me Solutions

At 44, I wet my pants for the first time since toddlerhood. I was sitting on my couch when a whoosh of fluid seeped into […]