Whitney McKnight
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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Q&A: Is Perimenopause a Medical Condition? (opens the original)
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Although The Menopause Society refers to perimenopause as a “transition” between normal menstruation and menopause, not necessarily a medical condition, the demand for perimenopause treatment is increasing. A study published last year in Nature found that 4432 US women aged 30-45 years who were surveyed reported experiencing perimenopause-related symptoms, with severity increasing as they aged. The Women Living Better Survey found that women in this age group reported “not feeling helped” by the
Normalizing Symptoms Tied to Reduction in Treatment Seeking (opens the original)
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Although it’s common for clinicians to quell anxiety in patients by reassuring them that their symptoms are normal, the results of a new series of experiments found that such normalization was linked to a reduction in treatment-seeking. Patients who were reassured about their condition were more likely to tolerate their symptoms than to seek to resolve them. “Healthcare providers may believe normalization will reduce patients’ anxiety and serve as a vicarious signal that others have come through
US Women Unsure When, How to Seek Perimenopause Treatment (opens the original)
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A large mixed-methods study has found that more than a third of women in midlife were unsure of whether they had entered perimenopause. “Limited public awareness and inconsistent clinical recognition further compound this uncertainty,” the study’s lead investigator, Yihan Xu, PhD, and her colleagues wrote. The median age of perimenopause onset is 45 years, with a median duration of somewhere between 4 and 8 years. Common symptoms are vasomotor, psychological, or urogenital in nature, and can hav
Social Needs Screening Not Associated With Use of Services (opens the original)
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Higher rates of routine screening and referrals for social needs in pediatric primary care were not associated with an increase in patient enrollment in community-based resources, a clinical study published in Pediatrics has found. “Our results carry important implications for the integration of social care into pediatric primary care and may temper expectations for the impact of such social care systems implemented in real-world practice conditions on connecting families to resources,” the stud
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