Hormone Cycles - Holy Hormones Journal

Type and Timing of Menopause and Later Life Mortality among Women in the Iowa Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (EPESE) Cohort

The relationship between menopausal characteristics and later life mortality is unclear. We tested the hypotheses that women with surgical menopause would have increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality compared with women with natural menopause, and that women with earlier ages at natural or surgical menopause would have greater all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than women with later ages at menopause.

Health Groups: Statins Linked to 300+ Negative Effects

While annual sales of statin drugs have reached 29-billion dollars a year, globally, new concerns are being raised by a broad range of health and consumer advocacy organizations around the world regarding the growing body of clinical research indicating they may be causing far greater harm than good.

Despite the success of statin drugs for lowering cholesterol, over 300 health problems have been linked to this chemical class of drugs in peer-reviewed clinical research found on the National Library of Medicine.

Forcibly Sterilized Woman Outraged by North Carolina Eugenics Program

Elaine Riddick Testifying to North Carolina Legislature

Elaine Riddick Feels Violated All Over Again. After enduring a lifetime of humiliation and regret, she can barely control her outrage. The $50,000 now offered to her only makes her angrier. Elaine Riddick was only 14 when North Carolina’s State’s Eugenics Board decided that she was not capable of mothering children and forcibly sterilized her by cauterized her fallopian tubes. Nearly 44 years later, the state of North Carolina has proposed compensate Riddick and other victims of its eugenics program $50,000 each. Between 1929 and 1974, nearly 7,600 people were sterilized under orders from North Carolina’s Eugenics Board. Nearly 85% were women or girls, some as young as 10. The state estimates that 1,500 to 2,000 of the victims are still alive. To its credit, North Carolina is the first state to consider compensation for victims of forced sterilization According to most estimates, there are at likely 65,000 victims of forced sterilization in at least 30 states. This figure does not include the forced sterilization of Native American Women under the care of the Native American Health Care System.