There is little evidence that HRT causes people to gain weight. Weight gain during menopause has more to do with the changes in metabolism than whether a person takes HRT. Hormone replacement therapy ...

Menopause has long been a hush-hush topic, something on the periphery of our minds that no one really wants to talk about. (Except maybe in hushed whispers with your best friend while fanning yourself ...

The 20th-century modernist writer Virginia Woolf, in her book 'Mrs Dalloway', published in 1925, described her 52-year-old protagonist Clarissa Dalloway feeling “shriveled, aged, breastless”, during ...