Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) balances a woman’s hormones as she nears or enters menopause. During menopause, the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which regulate the female reproductive system, ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy is in a new cancer scare just a week after a major trial was abandoned because the health risks were too high. Women who used oestrogenonly HRT were found to be 60 per ...

my recommendation to women when they go on hormone replacement therapy, they do it around the perimenopause when they are having the maximum symptoms, that they take it for menopausal symptoms and ...

As little as a decade ago, HRT – hormone replacement therapy – was pretty much out of the question. Studies in 2002 had ...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is associated with an increased risk for developing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in postmenopausal women, according to a study presented at the annual meeting ...

Within a year, the FDA had put a “black box” warning on estrogen products used in hormone therapy—the most serious warning the agency places on prescription drugs—about the risk of ...

Many alternatives for HRT exist. You can try lifestyle changes, supplements, other therapies, and medications to help reduce and manage menopause symptoms. Talk with your doctor to start.

The researchers found that among women prescribed HRT, 992 developed IBS at least 30 days after being prescribed HRT vs 581 not prescribed HRT (odds ratio [OR], 1.75). (HealthDay News ...

That study has since been discredited for two reasons. One is that the women who participated in it started HRT at the average age of 63, far older than women generally begin. The other is that ...

Most androgens are made in the testicles. Hormone therapy keeps prostate cancer cells from using androgens. This can shrink the tumors and/or slow their growth. Hormone therapy is a common ...

A new hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tsar has been appointed to help deal with UK supply issues. Madelaine McTernan has been part of the taskforce involved in the nationwide Covid vaccine rollout.

Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) was popular in the 1990s before the publication of a study in the early 2000s saw its use rapidly plummet. Today, having recovered from some misreporting around ...