Editorial Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Gynaecology.1.007
Looking Ahead: Interesting Developments in Menopause Management
Kristi Tough DeSapri1,*
- 1Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, Director, Northwestern Women’s Bone Health Program, Northwestern University, USA
Corresponding Author
Kristi Tough DeSapri, kristi.toughdesapri@nm.org
Received Date: July 10, 2020
Accepted Date: July 13, 2020
DeSapri KT. Looking Ahead: Interesting Developments in Menopause Management. Arch Obstet Gynecol. 2020; 1(2): 43-44.
Copyright: © 2020 DeSapri KT. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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