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A Nature Communications study measured brain change across puberty, pregnancy and menopause in 1,095 women and girls using one set of methods; menopause was the transition where the volume loss did not show up, and the authors are careful about what that absence proves.
Gale Staff · Sep 12 · Nature Communications
September 10, 2026
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A 2026 scoping review in Menopause read nineteen studies of how the transition appears in electronic health records — what is missing, which numbers hold, and what a review of this kind cannot settle.
Gale Staff · Sep 10 · Menopause
September 9, 2026
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A six-month randomized trial put 93 women through aerobic exercise or stretching and toning; the executive-function advantage landed in the post-menopausal group, and the comparison that found it was made after the trial had run.
Gale Staff · Sep 9 · Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
September 8, 2026
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The first ESC guideline written with kidney specialists asks for a blood test and a urine test in every cardiovascular patient — here are the two numbers, the thresholds that count as abnormal, and the questions the document leaves open.
Gale Staff · Sep 8 · European Heart Journal
September 6, 2026
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The US Preventive Services Task Force went looking for evidence that testing the lungs of adults who report no breathing symptoms does them any good, and found not one trial of screening itself.
Gale Staff · Sep 6 · USPSTF
September 5, 2026
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A Mayo Clinic records review of nearly a thousand women asked whether a diagnosis of primary infertility shows up decades later in the age a woman reaches menopause.
Gale Staff · Sep 5 · Menopause
September 4, 2026
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Fourteen years of national survey data, three generations and three policy eras kept returning the same result: adults in families that could not pay a medical bill slept short far more often than those who could.
Gale Staff · Sep 4 · Sleep Epidemiology
September 1, 2026
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A Swedish cohort of 1,865 older adults asked a narrower question than most diet research: whether eating well still tracks lower dementia rates in people whose blood already carries the markers of Alzheimer pathology.
Gale Staff · Sep 1 · JAMA Network Open
August 31, 2026
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A cohort of 571 young people followed for a mean of 7.8 years found that how attached a child was to a pet — dog or cat — tracked with fewer later mental health diagnoses more consistently than owning a dog did.
Gale Staff · Aug 31 · BMC Pediatrics
August 30, 2026
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An 18-year cohort study of 2,603 older women tied earlier menopause to faster cognitive decline and earlier Alzheimer diagnosis at effect sizes almost too small to feel, and to one much larger signal — white matter lesion accumulation — that appeared only after spontaneous menopause.
Gale Staff · Aug 30 · JAMA Network Open
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Social Media and Mental Health Among Children and Teens
Johns Hopkins Medicine · Jul 30
Study sheds light on why children of divorce face higher risk of lifetime depression
Medical Xpress · Jul 30
Menopause Before Age 40 Can Significantly Increase Your Risk Of High Blood Pressure, Finds Study
NDTV · Jul 30
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