Attention Menopausal Women: Get Used to It

NIH has been pushing its new standard on hormone replacement therapy, driven in part as a result of data obtained since the fallout from fabricated data on hormone replacement therapy. The guidelines include the following incredible suggestion: women should begin to recognize menopause as a natural part of life rather than a disease state. This to buttress the claim also made in that report that hormone replacement therapy should be reserved for the most severe symptoms of menopause. That claim comes from safety concerns. But the broader claim - the one about how women need to learn to deal with aging, is hillariously sexist and dangerous and will fuel a gender debate within and outside the beltway.