The big menopause: the word just seems wrong! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Christian women’s experience of the menopause by Beckford, Jane Elizabeth

“…Background: As a universal experience for midlife women, menopause represents a marker of aging and fertility loss that the evidence suggests may have a profound biopsychosocial impact. …”
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Faster and more accurate identification of male faces in female care home residents by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Martinez-Claras, Donna S.

“…Because the known masculinity bias in women prevailed beyond the menopause, it is discussed whether rather than fertility hormones, women’s testosterone would be a likely candidate explaining the male advantage in sex-of-face identification throughout the life-span.…”
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P-515 An exploration of young women’s process of adjustment in spontaneous premature ovarian insufficiency: a grounded theory study by Banat, Sophie

“…Summary answer: Throughout the women's adolescence and early twenties, they continually reconceptualised their menopausal body, until they achieved a sense of being developmentally ‘fully grown’.…”
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Weight loss strategies and the risk of skeletal muscle mass loss by McCarthy, H. David, Berg, Aloys

“…Population groups including post-menopausal women, the elderly, those with metabolic disease and athletes may be particularly at risk of skeletal muscle loss when following a weight management programme. …”
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