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The largest study yet to put step counters on 11- and 12-year-olds found symptom scores a year later that kept falling across all five of its step bands, with no threshold anywhere in the range it could measure.
Gale Staff · Oct 7 · JAMA Network Open
October 5, 2026
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The AMY Study measured symptoms against menstrual staging in 8,096 women, and the symptoms that wreck a workday turned out to be the ones that track the transition least.
Gale Staff · Oct 5 · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
October 4, 2026
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What a single hormone panel can establish about the menopausal transition, what the diagnosis is actually made of, and the one situation in which testing carries real diagnostic weight.
Gale Staff · Oct 4 · The BMJ
September 30, 2026
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The largest cohort yet to ask both halves of the question found earlier menopause tracking with more dementia, and traced about an eighth of that link to conditions medicine already treats.
Gale Staff · Sep 30 · EClinicalMedicine
September 27, 2026
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The 2026 ACC scientific statement asks cardiologists to treat heart disease, cognition and frailty as one problem in older patients, and says plainly how thin the evidence beneath that ask still is.
Gale Staff · Sep 27 · Journal of the American College of Cardiology
September 26, 2026
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A 16-protein blood signature of menopause carried a 15% higher rate of Alzheimer's dementia across 11,059 women followed a mean of 15.7 years, no clear signal for dementia overall, and no association at all with hot flashes measured in midlife.
Gale Staff · Sep 26 · Nature Medicine
September 18, 2026
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In 1,893 Spanish families, dogs, birds and cat ownership in general showed nothing at ages 7-8; the one association sat in families whose cat was present at ages 4-5 but not at age 1, and the paper's own multiple-comparison test left it borderline.
Gale Staff · Sep 18 · World Journal of Pediatrics
September 17, 2026
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A 6,760-person Framingham analysis puts the turning point at ages 37 to 39 — on average 6, 14 and 19 years ahead of the final period, and a decade earlier than in men.
Gale Staff · Sep 17 · Hypertension
September 15, 2026
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Across 198,417 US mothers, the share rating their own mental health excellent dropped 12.4 percentage points in eight years — and most of that movement landed one rung down the scale rather than at the severe end.
Gale Staff · Sep 15 · JAMA Internal Medicine
September 13, 2026
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In 964 women, two blood markers of gut barrier integrity sat flat through premenopause, began climbing about two and a half years before the final period, and levelled off roughly six years after it.
Gale Staff · Sep 13 · Journal of Clinical Investigation
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