Updates

SIGMA is your primary source for up-to-date information on menopause and aging. On this page, you will find links to information and recent research in these areas. Please bookmark this page and check back with us in the coming weeks as we develop our resource list.

NEW! Because I am unique! SIGMA Booklets for Patients on Menopause

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Women's Health Initiative, articles by Christine M. Derzko MD FRCSC  

• Menopause, Hormones, and the "Critical Therapeutic Window"
  Christine M. Derzko MD FRCSC, Endocrinology Rounds, January/February 2007

• Nancy's Dilemma: To take postmenopausal hormones or not to take postmenopausal hormones—that is the question
  Christine M. Derzko MD FRCSC, 2008 Update on the WHI & The Critical Therapeutic Window, based on data presented by the author at Primary Care Today May 9, 2008

• Hormone Therapy for Women in Early Menopause: A 2008 Update
  Christine M. Derzko MD FRCSC

Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin ( http://www.dtb.bmj.com/ )

• Herbal medicines for menopausal symptoms
  DTB/Vol 47/No 1/January 2009

OBG Management ( http://www.obgmanagement.com/ )

• "Bioidentical" hormones: What you (and your patient) need to know
  January 2009, Vol. 21, No. 01

North American Menopause Society (NAMS)

• NAMS Preliminary Statement on New WHI Report on HT and Breast Cancer
  From Wulf H. Utian, MD, PhD, DSc(Med), Executive Director, NAMS

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is aware of the press reports of WHI Study results presented last Saturday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. However, press commentary and personal opinions of physicians expressed in the press reports cannot be commented on until independent reviewers have access to the prepublication data, or to the scientific paper when published.

The level of risk described in the media reports appears to mirror the level of increased risk published in July 2002 and modified in subsequent publications from the WHI.

NAMS will monitor this situation closely and issue a clear statement on the data as soon as it becomes available. In the interim, NAMS is not recommending any change from its current position statement on postmenopausal hormone therapy use, accessible at http://www.menopause.org/aboutmeno/consensus.aspx.

• Estrogen and progestogen use in postmenopausal women: July 2008 position statement of The North American Menopause Society -- Menopause 2008

• Position Statements developed by NAMS

Osteoporosis Canada

• Breaking Barriers, Not Bones: 2008 National Report Card on Osteoporosis Care

Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC)

• Canadian Consensus Conference on Menopause, 2006 Update

  This guideline is for menopause, hormones, and osteoporosis. HRT is included in the review.

• Clinical Practice Guidelines

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