My Healthy Today: Menopause Study: Flaxseed doesn't reduce women's hot flashes

Dr. Mark Kris, a cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said the flaxseed results are disappointing
"There were so many testimonials that we thought flaxseed was going to work, but a testimonial is not a rigorous clinical trial result, and that's what our patients deserve," he said.
"Even natural products do have side effects," so it's important to test them in studies such as this one, he said.

My Healthy Today - Menopause Increasing daily calcium will not reduce the risk of fractures in later life

The authors conclude that while low levels of calcium intake (less than 700 mg per day) increase the risk of fractures and osteoporosis, there is no need to start increasing calcium intake above the amount. Increases did not further reduce the fracture and osteoporosis risk.

Menopause Symptoms Common After Gyn Cancer - Medpage (3/2010)

"However, Huang and colleagues found no studies in the medical literature documenting the frequency and nature of menopausal symptoms in gynecologic cancer survivors."

"Note that the percentage of gynecologic cancer survivors who reported menopausal symptoms was extremely high regardless of whether they received hormonal therapy."

Is Heart Disease Inevitable for Women? Heart Health Tool Kit for Every Decade of a Woman's Life

Cardiology in Review:

March/April 2011

doi: 10.1097/CRD.0b013e318209a711

Menopausal symptoms in women undergoing chemotherapy-induced and natural menopause: a prospective controlled study - abstract

CONCLUSIONS: Women undergoing chemotherapy-induced menopause may experience worse symptoms than women undergoing natural menopause.