John Studd

An email survey of patients attending a PMS and Menopause Centre produced 238 patients whose principal presenting symptom was depression. Seventy-seven percent claimed to have had severe or moderate depression, 17% had had at least one psyc…

Hysterectomy with or without oophorectomy continues to receive a bad press in lay magazines as well as professional journals when the facts belie such a judgement. Hardly an article fails to inform the public that the operation commonly res…

OBJECTIVES: To assess long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) usage in women after hysterectomy and to assess the relationship between age and long-term use of HRT in these women. Problems and comments of those women responding to a que…

The objective of this study is to review the published literature on psychological outcome of hysterectomy and oophorectomy for non-malignant indications. The relevant publications over the past 30 years until the end of 1997 were identifie…

The incidence of depressed mood is high in women before hysterectomy. This finding is usually the effect of prolonged heavy periods, chronic pelvic pain, and severe premenstrual syndrome that warrant the surgical treatment. The therapeutic …

Menopause, published monthly, provides a forum for new research, applied basic science, and clinical guidelines on all aspects of menopause. The scope and usefulness of the journal extend beyond gynecology, encompassing many varied biomedic…

Long-term unopposed depot progestogens are currently used widely, mainly for contraception. Anxiety has recently arisen as to their implied role in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis. The reason for this has been the hypoestrogenic amenorrhoe…

SummaryA patient who had developed endometrial cystic hyperplasia whilst receiving oestrogen therapy for climacteric symptoms was treated with a progestagen for two 3-week courses separated by I week. Scanning electron microscopy of the cys…

The surface ultrastructure of normal and abnormal endometrial cells from patients receiving oestrogen therapy for the climacteric syndrome was studied by scanning electron microscopy. Patients with endometrial pathology were treated with or…

The treatment regimens are described in 74 patients with endometrial disease among 850 climacteric women receiving oestrogen therapy. Cystic hyperplasia was associated with unopposed oestrogen therapy without progestagen. Two courses of 21 …