Krista Kotz, Ph.D., M.P.H. Kotz Health Policy Consulting, Orinda, California. Oct 2006, Vol. 15, No.8: 898 -908 Jeanne Leventhal Alexander, M.D. Kaiser Permanente Medical Group of Northern California Psychiatry, Women’s Health program, Oakland, California; Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California; Alexander Foundation for Women’s Health, a non-profit, Berkeley, California, [...]

By Glenn D. Braunstein Department of medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA, Room 2119 Plaza Level, North Tower, 8700 Beverly Blvd, los Angeles, CA 90048, USA Abstract: Androgens are directly secreted by the ovaries and adrenals in women, and androgen, precursors from there glands are converted in a variety [...]

Transdermal testosterone improved sexual function, depressed mood, and well-being in women who had undergone oophorectomy and hysterectomy, reported Dr. Jan. L. Shifren of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and associates. The 75 women, aged 31-56, were studied at nine clinical centers throughout the United States. All had undergone surgery 1-10 years previously, before natural menopause occurred. [...]

It has long been recognized that the symptom complex of fibromyalgia can be seen with hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism may been categorized, like diabetes, into type I (hormone deficient) and type II (Hormone resistant). Most cases of fibromvalgia fall into the latter category. The syndrome is reversible with treatment, and is usually of late onset. It is [...]

By Johen E. Morley, MB, BCh It is now been clearly demonstrated both in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that testosterone levels decrease over the lifespan in males. Because of the increase in sex hormone binding globulin in aging, the decline in testosterone levels is even greater when a measurement of free of bioavailable testosterone (free [...]