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Summary of the 2023 North American Menopause Society Annual Meeting

Hot flashes, the havoc they can wreak on quality of life, and new ways to extinguish these challenging vasomotor symptoms took center stage at the 2023 annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society.

With a theme of Midlife Women’s Health in the Era of Precision Medicine, the four-day meeting was held at the Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia from Sept. 27 to 30, 2023. It featured up-to-date clinical information on treatment and prevention strategies for perimenopausal, menopausal, and postmenopausal women.

Click above to find our post-conference wrap-up report.

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Unexpected Drug-Induced Liver Injury Associated With MenoFit: A Synbiotic Menopause Supplement

Unexpected Drug-Induced Liver Injury Associated With MenoFit: A Synbiotic Menopause Supplement

Source : https://journals.lww.com/acgcr/fulltext/2023/09000/unexpected_drug_induced_liver_injury_associated.19.aspx

h 1 week of jaundice and abnormal liver biochemical tests in the absence of other risk factors and negative comprehensive workup for known etiologies of liver disease....

In the case described, given the significant improvement in liver tests on discontinuing the supplement and initiating steroids, the diagnosis of DILI was established. However, given the lack of long-term follow-up and lack of demonstration of normalization of liver tests, a suspicion of chronic DILI could not be ruled out.

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Number of Vaginal Lactobacilli in Postmenopausal Women With Vaginal Atrophy Before and After Treatment With Erbium-YAG Laser: a Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial

Number of Vaginal Lactobacilli in Postmenopausal Women With Vaginal Atrophy Before and After Treatment With Erbium-YAG Laser: a Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial

Source : https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-023-02590-y

Primary objective To evaluate the effect of erbium-YAG laser on the number of vaginal lactobacilli in postmenopausal women. Secondary objectives To evaluate the effect of erbium-YAG laser on vaginal atrophy...

This study showed an improvement in vaginal lactobacilli grading after vaginal laser treatment. However, the difference in vaginal lactobacilli grading after treatment in both groups was not statistically significant.

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Coverage of the 2023 North American Menopause Society Annual Meeting

The theme of the 2023 annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society, “Midlife Women’s Health in the Era of Precision Medicine,” set the tone for innovation.

The four-day program, which is taking place at the Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, brought together more than 1,400 people from all over the world to discuss the latest thinking on addressing the symptoms of menopause and preventing or treating the health risks associated with advancing age in postmenopausal women.

Click above for a summary of some presentations that caught our eye at the conference.

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Assessing Young Adults' Menopause Knowledge to Increase Understanding of Symptoms and Help Improve Quality of Life for Women Going Through Menopause: a Student Survey

Assessing Young Adults' Menopause Knowledge to Increase Understanding of Symptoms and Help Improve Quality of Life for Women Going Through Menopause: a Student Survey

Source : https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-023-02641-4

Background Due to menopause being a largely invisible and under-discussed topic in wider society, women often deal with menopause-related complications on their own.

Our findings provide evidence that young adults of both sexes have a general baseline knowledge of menopause and its symptoms and are open to learning strategies to help support menopausal women.

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