Listen to Dr. Taryl Felhaber describe the suboptimal way that menopausal issues are currently dealt with in family practice. Poor physician undergraduate education and a paucity of continuing medical education offerings in the field for practicing physicians are but part of the problem.

Too many family physicians under treat the often debilitating and life intrusive symptoms on the basis that hormones are 'unsafe,' some citing a twenty year old study purely on preliminary data.

It needs to be remembered that with increasing life expectancies, especially among women, some may live a third to almost a half their lives in this situation.

Discover other interesting facts and insights in this informative, timely and much needed interview.