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Article: Hot flashes aren't just for menopausal women these days.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 7, 2004
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Byline: Kay Harvey
Hot flashes are no big secret anymore.
A better-kept secret is this: Those pesky personal heat waves don't inflict themselves only on menopausal women.
Ask Jane Norstrom, barely past 40 when she fought back with electric fans in every room of the house. Or Rick Hackney, who made friends with some older women at church when they discovered they had hot flashes in common.
Hot flashes no longer discriminate because of age or gender. New-wave drugs that tweak hormones _ estrogen and its male cousin, testosterone _ have turned up the heat on an age-old phenomenon. Men and women getting medical treatment for a variety of ...