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CNET
12-08-2025
- Health
- CNET
OURA Ring Introduces Its First-Ever Menopause Feature Plus Upgraded Pregnancy Insights
The Oura Ring is upgrading its existing features to better assist you if you're pregnant or perimenopausal, a new demographic for the ring. Oura is well known for its holistic sleep and wellness insights and already supports pregnant individuals, but this upgrade improves its data insights to help you look at everything from the gestational stages, trends related to temperature, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and more. Oura's traditional data markers based on readiness, sleep, rest mode and recovery mode are included for pregnant members. They will also be able to tag their symptoms if they experience cramps, nausea and cravings, for example. Users will also have access to pregnancy-aware cycle insights that contain reproductive health history, which looks at previous cycles and current pregnancy, to help better understand how the data changed before, during and after pregnancy. This could be particularly helpful if you're looking to get pregnant again and want to compare your pregnancy and postpartum experiences to determine the best way to take care of yourself. Oura is targeting the perimenopausal crowd with its newest standout feature, which will be available through Cycle Insights found in the Oura app. Over the past few years, there's been an increased interest in perimenopause and menopausal stages, a topic often under-addressed in the wellness space. Now, people are interested in learning how to spot the signs you're in perimenopause or menopause, how to prepare for them and how to make it a more tolerable experience, since these stages often come with uncomfortable symptoms such as mood changes, hot flashes and sleep disturbances. The new Cycle Insights feature provides a 12-question assessment that quantifies symptoms to give you an 'impact to quality of life' score. With all this data, Oura provides a PDF report that can be shared with your doctor so they can view insights on symptoms and other data. Additionally, Oura has teamed up with wellness apps that connect you to expert care through Maven, Midi Health and Evernow, to name a few. These apps allow you to explore treatment options, hormone therapy and other methods to keep you supported during perimenopause and beyond. I previously tested the Oura ring, and it's one of my favorite smart rings on the market because it's constantly striving to improve its software and takes into consideration the types of people attracted to its technology. These improved features make it more inclusive toward parents-to-be and individuals going through menopause. I could see other smart wellness wearables following suit, since this is a growing demographic. Having this type of information will make it easier for those in these life stages to better understand how these changes are affecting their bodies, and the data can be easily shared with medical providers.
Daily Mail
15-07-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Revealed: The bombshell new drug that could delay the menopause for years - or even eliminate it forever... but are you willing to put up with these side effects?
Whether women want it or not, they have little choice but to go through the menopause. Or do they? What if the menopause was something that could be delayed – or even eliminated altogether? That's what a handful of scientists believe could become a reality, with research teams worldwide exploring the various ways to achieve this. Menopause occurs around midlife, when the ovaries run out of functioning eggs – this leads to a natural decline in oestrogen levels, which starts a few years before the menopause during the perimenopausal period.
Medscape
15-05-2025
- Health
- Medscape
History of Fracture Prompts Women To Get Bone Density Scan
A substantial proportion of perimenopausal and menopausal women expressed willingness to undergo assessment for osteoporosis, especially among those of Chinese ethnicity and those with an older age, fracture history, and higher scores in perception of their osteoporosis risk. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted this cross-sectional study utilizing self-administered questionnaires to determine the factors that affect the willingness of perimenopausal and menopausal women to undergo bone mineral densitometry for assessment of osteoporosis. They recruited 342 women aged 50 years or older from primary care clinics in Singapore and assessed their health beliefs related to osteoporosis using a scale and willingness to undergo an osteoporosis assessment via a single question. This study asked participants about the benefits and barriers to calcium intake and exercise; higher scores indicated stronger health beliefs. TAKEAWAY: Two thirds of participants (66.1%) expressed willingness to undergo an osteoporosis assessment. Chinese ethnicity ( P = .016), older age ( P = .019), and a history of fractures ( P = .02) were associated with increased odds of willingness to undergo a screening for assessment of osteoporosis. = .016), older age ( = .019), and a history of fractures ( = .02) were associated with increased odds of willingness to undergo a screening for assessment of osteoporosis. Women with higher risk perception scores for osteoporosis and those with higher exercise benefit scores were more likely to express willingness to undergo assessment ( P < .001 and P = .002, respectively). IN PRACTICE: 'Knowledge of these factors will be useful when developing interventions to improve preventive behaviours for osteoporosis and increase uptake of osteoporosis assessment for those at risk,' the authors wrote. SOURCE: The study was led by Jacqueline Giovanna De Roza of the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics in Singapore. It was published online on May 9, 2025, in BMC Primary Care . LIMITATIONS: Due to the cross-sectional design, the researchers could not establish that certain factors caused women to be willing to undergo an assessment. Potential recall bias may have existed due to self-administered questionnaires. The study did not assess how serious participants were about their reported beliefs about osteoporosis. DISCLOSURES: This study did not receive any funding. The authors declared having no conflicts of interests. This article was created using several editorial tools, including AI, as part of the process. Human editors reviewed this content before publication. Credit Lead image: E+/Getty Images Medscape Medical News © 2025 WebMD, LLC Cite this: History of Fracture Prompts Women To Get Bone Density Scan - Medscape - May 15, 2025.
