News
- IN THE NEWS: “Is menopause making you tired?” on WeightWatchers, with comments from Center Core Faculty Siobán D. Harlow, PhD
Siobán Harlow, PhDEarly in the menopausal transition, “women tend to have longer and heavier menstrual blood flow than at any other time in their reproductive lives. One in three women transitioning through menopause will experience repeated episodes of abnormal uterine bleeding. Excessive bleeding can lead to iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia, well-known causes of fatigue.”
- More at WeightWatchers.com
- August 14 2025
- IN THE NEWS: “Where Are We On The Science Of Menopause?” with Center Director Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez, PhD, MPH on Science Friday podcast (AUDIO 🔊)
Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez, PhD, MPH“We do need to understand better how those changes in physiologic health outcomes across the board, including brain health, cardiovascular health, metabolic health that do occur during the menopausal transition, whether or not those are persistent and associated with long-term health outcomes for major age-related diseases. And those changes that we might be looking at during the menopause include things like the timing of the menopausal transition, how quickly one goes through the menopausal transition, and how symptomatic their transition is.”
- More at WNYC Studios’ Science Friday podcast
- July 28 2025
- IN THE NEWS: “Study finds another possible cause of fatigue felt by many menopausal women” on CNN, with comments from Center Core Faculty Siobán D. Harlow, PhD
- Siobán Harlow, PhD
“Menstruation remains a subject cloaked in silence and associated with taboos, even within the realm of scientific inquiry. Lack of dialogue about menstruation, particularly about the changes in bleeding patterns as women approach menopause, leads to women’s lack of knowledge about what is normal.”
- More at CNN
- April 07 2025
- IN THE NEWS: “Women farmworkers in Michigan face unique work challenges” on Michigan Radio
Alexis Handal, PhD, MPH and Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, PhD, MPH, MA“We are finding exploitative conditions that are unique for women farmworkers around issues of sexual harassment, exposures during pregnancy, challenges with obtaining and having access to proper hygiene and sanitation, particularly during menstruation, and also really important aspects of work-life balance and child care issues that women farmworkers in particular face-” — Alexis J. Handal, PhD, MPH (Co-Study Lead, Michigan Farmworker Project).
- More at Michigan Radio
- March 10 2025
- PUBLISHED: “Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Female Reproductive Aging” with lead author and Center Doctoral Student Jiaxin Wu, MPH
Jiaxin Wu, MPHCongratulations to Center Doctoral Student Jiaxin Wu, MPH, on her first publication as a lead author in Seminars in Reproductive Medicine.
“Female reproductive aging often affects women's emotional, physical, and physiological well-being. Ovarian aging is characterized by fluctuations in reproductive hormones and determines the age at which menopause occurs. Understanding potentially modifiable factors that influence this process is essential for addressing health disparities, improving quality of life, and informing relevant public health strategies. ”
- More at Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
- March 07 2025
- PUBLISHED: “Self-reported history of physical intimate partner violence and longitudinal cognitive performance in midlife women” with lead author and Center Doctoral Student Jillian Baker, MPH, BA
Jillian Baker, MPH, BACongratulations to Center Doctoral Student Jillian Baker, MPH, BA, on her first publication as a lead author in Women’s Health.
“Midlife women with a history of physical intimate partner violence exhibited a persistent decrease in the trajectory of working memory. These longitudinal findings extend previous cross-sectional reports which found that physical intimate partner violence had detrimental effects on working memory. These findings provide additional evidence that intimate partner violence is associated with decreases in working memory performance.”
- More at Social Science & Medicine
- January 16 2025
- IN THE NEWS: “What Do We Know About Environment, Climate, And Menopause? Not Enough” with Center Core Faculty Sung Kyun Park, ScD, MPH
Sung Kyun Park, ScD, MPH“Our data suggests that women with higher blood concentrations of PFOA and PFOS reached menopause earlier … than those with low exposure. This is equivalent to the effect of cigarette smoke, a known reproductive toxicant, where we compared current smokers and nonsmokers.”
- More at Moms Clean Air Force
- November 15 2024