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Article: Help For Menopause.(Pamphlet)
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- Pamphlet by: Food and Drug Administration
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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What is Menopause?
Menopause is the medical term for when a woman stops having menstrual periods. Some people call menopause "change of life," or "the change."
Menopause causes changes to a woman's body. Some of the changes are unpleasant or painful. Other changes involve risks to the woman's health. But there are medicines that a woman can take to help relieve these problems and protect against the health risks.
Natural menopause occurs when a woman's ovaries stop releasing eggs and the lining of the womb no longer sheds every month during a menstrual period.
When a woman has gone a year without having a period when she isn't ...