A Valentine’s Guide For Sexually Active People Aged 55+

Most people, regardless of their age, feel comfortable talking about health topics like smoking, diet, and exercise, but when it comes to sex, it is rarely discussed among people over 40 years old. Sexual health is a matter of common interest at all ages, and it needs to share the spotlight as people get older. […]

Balanced Hormones, Better Health: Meet the Women’s Hormone Pack

Hormonal balance is fundamental to a woman’s overall health and well-being. Yet, for many, achieving this balance can be difficult. Hormones are the body’s chemical messengers, which regulate processes that vary in mood, metabolism, energy, and reproductive health. When any of these messengers are disrupted, the effects can ripple right through the body and mind. […]

Is Prolia (denosumab) an Option to Treat Osteoporosis in Early Menopause?

Osteoporosis usually affects older people, but it can also impact younger individuals, like women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who still have regular periods. According to the Office on Women’s Health, “Early menopause occurs when a woman’s periods stop before the age of 45, and premature menopause occurs when her periods stop before the […]

Breaking the Silence: Shattering Taboos Around Menopause and Intimacy

For the last couple of years, I haven’t really been ‘feeling it. ‘ A recent trip to the gynecologist and some bloodwork later, I have the news that I am probably entering perimenopause. While the knowledge that this stage of life was always on the cards at some point, a part of me seems to […]

Demystifying Vagifem: Addressing Common Concerns and Side Effects

Vagifem is a medication prescribed to women for treating menopausal changes in the vagina. It contains estradiol, an estrogen hormone, in a vaginal insert. This treatment is usually used around the time of menopause to alleviate moderate to severe symptoms like vaginal dryness, burning, and itching. However, many women prefer to avoid the use of […]

The ABCs of HRT

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is a treatment that aims to relieve the effects that a woman could feel as a result of changes in hormone levels. These are most often the symptoms that are triggered by her progression through and after menopause has taken full hold.  Estrogen’s Role: From Womb to Woman Estrogen is the […]

Strategies & Solutions for Sexual Dysfunction in Women

I have shared the reluctance of many women, especially as I grew older and encountered perimenopausal changes, to talk frankly with my family doctor about problems in my sex life. I’m going to admit that this is a two-way street. Unfortunately, this reluctance was often reinforced by what I perceived to be a lack of […]

Empowered by Understanding: Navigating Hirsutism

The image is burned into my memory: Nana perched in her floral armchair, compact mirror clutched in one hand, tweezers poised like a tiny silver weapon in the other. With laser focus, she’d attack the stray dark hairs sprouting on her chin, muttering under her breath about “these stubborn things.” It felt like a ritual, […]

Men’s Health: Addressing the “M Word” (Manopause)

I have been looking forward to the latest installment in the series of articles published in the Jerusalem Post by their contributor, Andrea Samuels. Her series titled “Menopause Diaries” deals with her experience transitioning into menopause. With her permission, we republished the first article in the series at the end of February 2024, along with […]

Fielding questions relating to menopause

One of the subjects that draws frequent questions from our customers and that land on my desk as the senior pharmacist here at IsraelPharm is how best to manage the onset of menopause and how to live with it forever more. It’s understandable that lots of questions relating to menopause crop up because, after all, […]