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Evidence suggests that women who have negative expectations of perimenopause are more likely to have a difficult time.

It’s not the end of the world – it’s perimenopause

Popular culture would have you believe that every woman in perimenopause is going through hell, but it’s far more complex than that.

  • Paula Goodyer

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More than just a viral moment, there’s a scientific reason behind the phenomenon of women no longer caring about societal norms.

The unexpected upside to menopause that nobody warned me about

I had prepared for night sweats, anxiety and brain fog. But when the decades-long grip of caring about everything and everyone began to loosen, I felt a foreign new freedom.

  • Amra Pajalic
Lucinda McKimm runs a popular podcast on motherhood and career and said direct messages to the program reflect how unsettled working mothers are feeling.

The care fracture: How shocking abuse allegations have hit mothers

A seam of shame and blame on mothers has been exposed. Parenting advocates say this needs to be dispelled.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Andrea Collins found testosterone treatment extremely beneficial.

One hormone was a game-changer for Andrea’s perimenopause. She wants other women to have access, too

Patients and experts are calling for a testosterone treatment to be added to the PBS so more women can experience the benefits.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Mish Wright sought more effective treatment for incontinence when the initial advice she received was unhelpful.

Mish was having incontinence episodes at the gym. She was advised to stop exercising

It affects almost 40 per cent of Australian women, yet the advice for those who suffer with incontinence is often inadequate. There are ways to deal with it.

  • Claire Burke
Cath McLardy says he fear of recurrence of her breast cancer is with her all the time.

This breast cancer drug used to cost $3700 a month. From today, it will be much cheaper

A new medication found to reduce the chance of the most common types of breast cancer recurring will be available to many more Australians living with the disease.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Victoria has had a new IVF watchdog for six months. So far, it has not taken any action

Despite high-profile bungles in the assisted reproductive technology sector, the new regulator is yet to carry out a single enforcement action.

  • Grant McArthur
Retired Olympic canoeist Alyce Wood at QSAC on Thursday.

Why these women believe today is ‘massive for sport in Australia’

The Australian Institute of Sport has announced a new national guide for sporting organisations to support pregnant athletes, and those planning to have children.

  • William Davis
In the past two months, we’ve seen two cases of the wrong embryos transferred into patients, clinics providing incorrect information to sperm donors, and a class action against a number of IVF companies for add-on genetic testing that may have incorrectly found embryos were “abnormal”.

IVF ‘add-ons’ are a toxic cherry on a cake iced with desperation and hope

Some treatments have little evidence to support their use and others risk adverse effects. Yet IVF add-ons are regularly offered to desperate patients.

  • Isabelle Oderberg
Belinda Clarke, 46, found her PTSD compounded by three traumatic births and two life-threatening health conditions in quick succession.

The hidden cost of being diagnosed with a condition men can’t get

A new report has found dramatically higher rates of mental illness among women with endometriosis, gynaecological cancers and birth trauma.

  • Kate Aubusson

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