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Menopause Awareness: Talking Opening & Embracing the Phase

Menopause Awareness: Talking Opening & Embracing the Phase

The International Menopause Society (IMS), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has designated October as World Menopause Awareness Month. Although it is a natural part of the aging process, menopause creates much uncertainty and worry among women. To counteract this stigma, the awareness month promotes talking openly about menopause, and encouraging ways to embrace this phase. Sure, there are undesirable symptoms, like hot flashes, but there are also some upsides – think, no more periods, PMS, or sex with pregnancy worries. It can also be a time to enjoy the increased self-confidence and personal freedom that menopause often brings.  This...

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Why Do Menopause Symptoms Vary? A Recent Study Reveals New Clues

Why Do Menopause Symptoms Vary? A Recent Study Reveals New Clues

During the menopause transition, hot flashes and night sweats don’t affect all women the same. Researchers over the years have attempted to address variation in symptom intensity, duration and onset. A new study now reveals how genetics may play a role. “Our research team was interested in the genetic factors that influence reproductive aging, hormone levels and trajectories, and the symptoms of the menopausal transition,” says Jennifer Smith, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Michigan. “We (monitored) vasomotor symptoms before and during menopause, specifically, hot flashes and night sweats.” The study, published this Spring in Menopause, the journal of...

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New Screening Guidelines Aim to Eliminate Cervical Cancer Worldwide

New Screening Guidelines Aim to Eliminate Cervical Cancer Worldwide

Cervical cancer, which is largely preventable, takes hundreds of thousands of lives each year. The disease impacts poorer countries at a greater rate due to insufficient access to testing and reliable diagnostic tools. This month, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) published new screening and treatment recommendations to prevent cervical cancer in women around the globe, including promoting the use of a more accurate and cost-effective human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA-based test. The goal of this global strategy is to have 70% of women tested by 2030, supported by several efforts: Administering the more accurate – and...

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Only the Best for Our Sensitive Bodies

Soul Source is thrilled to offer two incredible, safe and natural products by Desert Health, the Aloe Glide lubricant and Releveum topical ointment that support and enhance women’s pelvic health and rehabilitation.

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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: Cervivor Connects Cervical Cancer Survivors

In honor of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month this January, we share with you an invaluable community resource called Cervivor, which gained its start through the visionary efforts of cervical cancer survivor Tamika Felder. When Tamika Felder was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 25, she felt totally isolated and alone. It was an “embarrassing” and “stigmatized” cancer to talk about, and there were not support groups or patient meet-ups to connect with, learn from and gain support from. Tamika’s treatments were ultimately successful, but the chemotherapy, radiation and surgery left her changed both physically and emotionally. And still, even in that “life...

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