Oct 12, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
Nearly half of women in the workforce are navigating perimenopause or menopause, yet misinformation, social media influence, and a rapidly expanding menopause marketplace are increasing demand for…
Paula BriggsGuestLuAnn HeinenHostWhat is your point of view now on the status of menopause research? Are we still behind? What's missing? What do we need to know?
And I think we've got, you know, in the States, ongoing studies looking at safety of MHT.
And, you know, even the WHI, there was some good stuff came out of that about, as we talked about before, about maintaining bone mineral density.
But I'm thinking about genitourinary symptoms, what my research project was on.
So it depends who women present to, whether they get the right diagnosis and things like laser therapy is a non-hormonal treatment.
It takes a long time and it's very difficult to get grant money to undertake large multi-centred randomised controlled trials, but they are viewed as gold standard.
And I think in comparison to other areas of medicine, women's health is still generally underfunded in terms of research.
What is your point of view now on the status of menopause research? Are we still behind? What's missing? What do we need to know?
And I think we've got, you know, in the States, ongoing studies looking at safety of MHT.
And, you know, even the WHI, there was some good stuff came out of that about, as we talked about before, about maintaining bone mineral density.
But I'm thinking about genitourinary symptoms, what my research project was on.
So it depends who women present to, whether they get the right diagnosis and things like laser therapy is a non-hormonal treatment.
It takes a long time and it's very difficult to get grant money to undertake large multi-centred randomised controlled trials, but they are viewed as gold standard.
And I think in comparison to other areas of medicine, women's health is still generally underfunded in terms of research.
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