Menopause is not a disease. Experts call for new narrative for this natural stage of a woman's life
CNN
The medicalization of menopause makes women fearful and reduces their ability to cope with it as a normal event, argue an international group of experts.
In an analysis piece published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, obstetrician Martha Hickey of the Royal Women's Hospital in Victoria, Australia and three women's health professors from the UK, US and Australia discuss the social and cultural attitudes to the life stage when most women's periods stop -- typically between the ages of 45 and 55 -- and argue the need to "normalize" menopause.
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