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Three happy, healthy women.
Managing
menopause-related mood symptoms
 

During the years leading up to menopause, hormone levels are falling, and many women experience emotional and psychological symptoms as well as physical changes.
In our feature, experts from Women’s College Hospital’s Reproductive Life Stages Program talk about mood symptoms and how to manage them.

  • If you have a cervix, you need a Pap test – no matter who you have sex with. That’s the message from two campaigns promoting Pap tests for trans men and for lesbian, bisexual, queer and gay women, and other women who have sex with women. Read our feature based on a presentation at Women’s College Hospital.

  • The Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign, which raises awareness about signs of domestic abuse and how bystanders can help women at risk, is expanding. Read our feature, based on a talk at Women’s College Hospital, to learn how co-workers can recognize when someone is being abused at home.

  • Clinical psychologist Dr. Lori Haskell highlights the need to make violence against women more than a ‘women’s issue’ in her talk Why Men Matter: Preventing Gendered Violence. Read our feature, based on the keynote talk at Women’s College Hospital’s 20th anniversary ceremony of the Montreal massacre.

  • More and more women are surviving breast cancer. Great news, but it also means more women face the unique long-term health issues that follow cancer treatment. Read our feature to find out why oncologist Dr. Patricia Ganz advocates planning survivor care from the beginning of treatment. Based on the 2009 F.M. Hill Lecture at Women’s College Hospital.

  • Mortality rates from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are rising in women. In our feature, Dr. Anna Day, director of the Gender and Airways Program at Women’s College Hospital, talks about how screening women at high risk might help identify more cases at an earlier stage.

  • Back pain affects most people at some point in their life, but healthy habits can lower the risk. Read our feature for back health advice from Women’s College Hospital’s physiotherapist Chandra Farrer and athletic therapist Heather Robinson.



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  • Gout may increase women’s heart attack risk more than men’s

  • Research by Women’s College scientists links preterm birth to increased risk of postpartum depression

  • Women’s College study finds women with spinal cord injuries have Pap rates similar to general population
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    • Submit your questions on Heart Disease to Women’s College Hospital chief cardiologist Dr. Leonard Sternberg and advanced practice nurse Jennifer Price of the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
    • Read the answers to last month’s questions on Foot Care from chiropodist Justin Turner of Women’s College Hospital.
    Story of the Month:
    • Read this month’s story, about a woman who learned how to exercise her heart.
    • Submit your personal stories now on next month’s topic Women & Fitness.
     
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    Women are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than from any other disease. But you can help prevent heart disease by knowing the risk factors and making healthy choices. That’s why we are featuring Heart Disease in our Resource Picks of the month.

     


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