With little explanation, the Board of Regents rejected an advisory group’s call to remove the names of 75 buildings across the 26-campus state university system.
Why Is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?
Over 1 billion women around the world will have experienced perimenopause by 2025. But a culture that has spent years dismissing the process might explain why we don’t know more about it.
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Angie McKaig calls it “peri brain” out loud, in meetings. That’s when the 49-year-old has moments of perimenopause-related brain fog so intense that she will forget the point she is trying to make in the middle of a sentence. Sometimes it will happen when she’s presenting to her colleagues in digital marketing at Canada’s largest bank in Toronto. But it can happen anywhere she has forgotten her own address. Twice.
A brief history of the menopause taboo
There are signs attitudes to this life phase are shifting, but when did we start viewing it so negatively?
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More of us are now opening up about menopause. From TV presenter Zoe Ball discussing her hot flushes to campaigns pushing employers to recognise the effects of symptoms in the workplace, menopause hasn’t always been talked about in this way in our lifetimes. There’s still a lot of stigma to dismantle, though. Our society’s ingrained ageism and sexism have, for a long time, found a joint target in menopause, resulting in a sniggering attitude towards common symptoms like brain fog and vaginal dryness, and a dismissal of menopausal people as ‘past it’. No wonder many dread this natural transition phase as a sign we’ve passed through a doorway from ‘young’ to ‘old’.
KENNETT SQUARE â Although the 2020 pandemic shutdown continues, limited batches of a novel vaccine are now on the way to the people of Chester County.
âIâm thrilled that we are seeing access to the vaccine here in Chester County,â said Mayor Matt Fetick of Kennett Square. âI hope that we will be able to take care of our most vulnerable neighbors including the frontline health care workers and emergency services along with neighbors who are medically compromised or at high risk.â
The mayor said on Monday, âThe sooner we get this under control the better for everyone.â
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Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said Pennsylvania is slated to receive 97,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 66 counties, with Philadelphia County receiving its own allotment of 13,650 doses, for a total of 111,150 doses for health care workers identified in the stateâs vaccine distribution plan, according to the Pennsylvania Departme