M. Rees - The Year in Post-Menopausal Health 2004

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THE YEAR IN POST-MENOPAUSAL HEALTH 2004

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Edited by

MARGARET REES and LOUIS KEITH

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PAOLA ALBERTAZZI, MD, MRCOG, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease, HS Brocklehurst Building, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, England

KRISHNAN BABURAJ, MBBS, MRCP(UK), Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology, Grampian Universities Hospitals NHS Trust, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland

JAMES BALMFORTH, BSc, MRCOG, Clinical Research Fellow in Urogynaecology, Kings College Hospital, London, England

BOB BARBER, MRCPsych, MD, Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Akenside Unit, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle, England

LAURA BERMAN, LCSW, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and Director, Berman Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

JANET BROCKIE, SRN, DN, Menopause Nurse Specialist, Womens Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England

LINDA CARDOZO, MD, FRCOG, Professor of Urogynaecology, Kings College Hospital, London, England

DAVID CROOK, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Behavioural Medicine Research Centre, University of Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, England

EDZARD ERNST, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCP Ed, Professor of Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Plymouth and Exeter, Exeter, Devon, England

ESTEVE FERNNDEZ, MD, PhD, Scientist and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Cancer Prevention and Control Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology; and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

WILLIAM D FRASER, BSc, MD, MRCP, FRCPath, Professor, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, England

SILVANO GALLUS, ScD, Biostatistician, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy

KERRIE GROW, MA, The Berman Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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SEAN KEHOE, MD, DCH, MRCOG, Professor of Gynaecological Cancer, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England

CARLO LA VECCHIA, MD, Professor of Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometrics, University of Milan; and Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy