No More Hot Flashes... and Even More Good News

August 1, 1998
Budoff updates her "No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News" (1984) and, although its title radiates optimism, presents discouraging as well as encouraging information. When causes of problems are not known, she and her contributing colleagues say so; they also point out areas in which more research and clinical data are needed to enable wise decisions. Budoff's experiences since opening a women's health care center in 1985 have broadened her knowledge of the physical and psychological difficulties peri-and postmenopausal women face, so that she can now assert that ovarian follicular age is more important to menopause than chronological age, and that menopause is a highly individual affair that makes any attempt to apply general rules lead to trouble and dissatisfaction. Pointing out that new drugs and changes in dosage have abolished most earlier problems, Budoff favors hormone replacement therapy. She and her colleagues also describe a wide variety of related matters in equally clear terms. A thorough and practical book that its large potential audience should find useful. ((Reviewed August 1998))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1998, American Library Association.)