The pooled cohort analysis published in the July issue of The Lancet Oncology by Katie O’Brien and colleagues provides important new insight into the relationship between hormone therapy and breast ...

No. The questions of why treat, whom to treat, and what drug to choose are fundamental. Why treat is straightforward. The purpose of treatment is to prevent the morbidity and mortality associated with ...

ORLANDO -- A natural, or bioidentical, combined estradiol-progesterone capsule (TX-001HR) significantly decreases the frequency and severity of moderate to severe hot flashes in postmenopausal women, ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Topical progesterone creams have been touted as a "natural" alternative to hormone replacement therapy and have been widely advertised in women's magazines and over the ...

Although American scientists had been busy studying hormones in the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret sanger's dream of a pill for birth control improbably came to fruition because of the discovery of a wild ...

Conditions such as amenorrhea, endometrial and breast cancers, PCOS, and AIDS-related endocrine disruptions are significantly increasing demand for progesterone therapies. For instance, U.S. sees ...

If you elect to replace hormones and do not have a uterus, you only need to replace estrogen (ERT). If you do have a uterus, progesterone must be added to prevent excess buildup of the uterine lining ...

Most of the women I know experience some PMS-related symptoms leading up to their period. But while I might be in the deepest misery, with bloating and mood swings, my BFF might just get a pimple.