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Health Information Center Resources on July 23rd's Topic
Menopause the Musical took the Syracuse Stage and Central New Yorkers by storm. Join cast member Liz Hyde, "the Ohio housewife," and Syracuse Stage's creative director Robert Moss as we discuss this theatrical phenomenon. Then learn why menopause is no longer taboo and is even celebrated from Melanie Kalman, PhD, RN of SUNY Upstate's College of Nursing. Also, Clinical educator Dona Ferguson, RN, MSN, will talk about one of summer's more unpleasant side effects: Lyme Disease.
For information on Womens Health Services at University Hospital: www.upstate.edu/uh/obgyn/
For information on Lyme Disease and ticks: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/
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Books
“Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices”. By Susan M. Love with Karen Lindsey. Three Rivers Press Publisher, New York, 2003.
“The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change” by Christiane Northrup. Bantam Books Publisher, New York, 2001.
“Menopause Without Medicine” by Linda Ojeda; foreword by Jeffrey S. Bland. Rev. 5th edition.
Books are in the Health Information Center, or can be ordered in bookstores or Amazon.com
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Web Sites from HIC's Health Library
Menopause Center
Natural and Alternative Treatments for Menopause
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Web Sites from the U.S. Government Sources
"Do CAM Therapies Help Menopausal Symptoms?", from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (additional links at the bottom of the page).
"Facts About Menopausal Hormone Therapy", from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
"Menopausal Hormone Therapy Information", from the National Institute of Health.
 HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
at SUNY Upststate Medical University
Medical Speak Word of the Week— STEROIDS
Definition: Steroids are a general class of chemical substances that are structurally related to one another.
Many hormones and drugs are steroids. Steroids can refer to the corticosteroid drugs such as prednisone used to reduce swelling, pain, and other symptoms of inflammation. Vitamin D is also a steroid. The male hormone testosterone and its derivatives are steroids with anabolic effects that can be used medically (or illegally) to build up muscle mass. Cholesterol is another steroid. In fact, the word steroid was coined in 1926 to refer to compounds like the sterols (as in cholesterol).
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July 23rd's Headlines ...
Linking Menopause, Weight and Breast Cancer
Detection Changing for Women's Heart Disease
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