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The death of a healthy young woman is always a tragedy (http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/06/11/birth-control-pills-yaz-yasmin.html).  Hormonal, pill-form contraceptives (The Pill) carry real risks of dying (about 1.5 deaths per 10,000 women-years of taking them). We have to put that risk into perspective, however, because the risk of dying in pregnancy is 12/10,000 woman-years of pregnancy and of a young person dying in a car crash is about 26/10,000 women-years of car rides. What is important is that there are other safe, effective contraceptive options Read more...

Many women experience difficulty when they stop taking Depo-Provera contraception - everything from heavy flow to amenorrhea, sore breasts, mood swings and weight gain.
In this re:Cycling blog post Laura Wershler interviews Dr. Jerilynn Prior Read more...

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CeMCOR is excited to announce the publication of the ebook chapter - "The Endocrinology Of Perimenopause: New Definitions And Understandings Of Hormonal And Bone Changes". This work, authored by Jerilynn Prior, Georgina Hale and Vanadin Seifert Klaus is part of the recently published ebook "Current Topics in Menopause" (Bentham Science Publications). Read more...

Research Study Participants needed:
Hot and bothered? Are you a woman suffering from hot flushes or night sweats?
CeMCOR invites perimenopausal women 35 to 58 who have menstruated within the past 12 months to participate in our Perimenopausal Hot Flush Study. Read more...

In this revealing work, Dr. Jerilynn Prior teams up with Susan Baxter, a medical writer, to explain the controversy over medicine prescribing estrogen for perimenopausal women in the United States, and to detail why progesterone is actually a far more effective, and a far less risk-ridden, approach. Read more...

This fiction book begins as eight frustrated midlife women—from all walks of life—meet Dr. Kailey Madrona, a woman specialist. Read more...