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By Sheeka Sanahori for Delta Dental Insurance Company Many women are familiar with the most talked-about symptoms of menopause — hot flashes, disrupted sleep, brain fog and mood swings. Far fewer know that dry mouth and sensitive teeth belong on that list too. There’s a name for it: menopause mouth. According to survey data from

Seven in 10 women in an October 2026 Hone Health survey didn’t recognize — or weren’t sure — that their symptoms were related to perimenopause. That includes 8% who didn’t know what perimenopause was. Most people have heard of menopause, which is technically a single day one year after a woman’s last period. But many

Your joints ache. Your knees creak when you climb stairs. Your hands feel stiff every morning. If you’re a woman in your 40s or 50s, these symptoms might not be random aging: they’re likely connected to menopause. The relationship between declining estrogen and joint pain is well-documented, yet many women don’t realize their hormones are

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S., yet most doctors wait until cholesterol reaches dangerous levels to treat it. That can mean missing the silent cardiovascular shifts that begin years earlier — often during perimenopause. As Hone Health explains below, that’s why perimenopause is increasingly viewed as a critical

Deciding whether to become a gestational surrogate — someone who carries a pregnancy for intended parents using an embryo created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) — is a personal choice that affects both you and your family. While every surrogacy process is unique, all journeys require careful thought, honest conversations, and a clear understanding of

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are reminded that one in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. In fact, breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, besides skin cancers. Yet, many women aren’t aware of a modifiable lifestyle factor that could be putting them at increased risk:

According to a new survey of women who recently graduated from college, nearly two-thirds (64%) often felt that talking openly about periods could lead to embarrassment or judgment. The poll of 2,000 women who graduated from college in the last five years also found 61% think more open conversations about periods would have made their

It’s a sobering statistic that one in eight women in the United States will face a breast cancer diagnosis at some point in their lifetime. This means that, sooner or later, someone you care about deeply may share this news. Knowing how to respond in that moment–what to say and what not to say–can make

Experienced workers in women’s health may notice that the questions women actually have about menopause are rarely the ones they ask out loud. They Google them at midnight. They mention them offhandedly at the end of a doctor’s appointment, already halfway out the door. Or they don’t say anything at all and just wonder if

  A few weeks after a healthy delivery, a young mother became convinced her husband was having an affair. There was no affair. But her parents believed her. Her sister believed her. So did her therapist and, later, her lawyer. Everyone believed her, because nothing about her looked like an illness. Only when the fear