The Latest Breaking News from Menopause

Keeley Hawes’s new Channel 4 and Prime Video drama, The Assassin, introduces a premise that feels both bold and overdue. It follows Julie (Hawes), a menopausal woman, overlooked and emotionally stalled, who worked as a hitwoman in her youth and unexpectedly comes out of retirement to return to the profession.

Too many women go untreated for debilitating menopause symptoms, advocates say, but a study could lead to better ways to identify and manage the transition.

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Women have declared this the ‘best term’ for perimenopause

Through writing her bestselling book, Want, Gillian Anderson says she has realised that " life does not end at 50 or at menopause" - and she wants everyone to know it

While over 2 million women enter menopause annually, an estimated 8 to 10 million women experience severe symptoms for seven years or more due to the loss of estrogen, affecting their quality of life.

As a new study reveals 39% of women say perimenopause began earlier than they anticipated, we spoke to three women about their journey

What happens when the women immortalised in old master paintings step out of their gilded frames and into the chaos of modern domestic life? That’s the question artist Sarah Lightman tackles, with wit, irreverence and insight, in her exhibition Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully, now on at Chester Visual Arts, Grovesnor…

Elinzanetant is a non-hormonal tablet which can tackle hot flushes.