With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.
Women typically experience menopause between the ages of 45 and 55, when their bodies no longer produce female hormones. On ...
Women should not suffer through menopause with hot flashes, night sweats and poor sleep. That's the message from FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary. The agency announced it will remove "black box" ...
A new study suggests that a common menopause treatment may influence how effectively certain weight-loss medications work.
Women who start early menopausal hormone therapy after menopause have a lower risk for osteoporosis over a 5-year period, ...
Shilpa Gajarawala struggled with hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems and brain fog. But given her history of breast cancer, treating these menopausal symptoms with hormone therapy wasn’t an ...
Caitlin Bump, director of wellness at Facial Aesthetics Inc., explains how hormone replacement therapy can be an effective ...
All-cause mortality risk was not different between women who used menopausal hormone therapy and nonusers. In women who underwent bilateral oophorectomy between ages 45 and 54, those who took ...
Bencivenga is the special projects manager at PharmedOut, a rational prescribing project at Georgetown University Medical Center. Fugh-Berman is a professor at GUMC and director of PharmedOut. If ...
Women taking menopausal hormone therapy do not face an increased risk of mortality, regardless of how long they take it, according to research published in The BMJ. In fact, women who undergo ...
Estradiol hormone therapy was associated with higher memory scores in postmenopausal women. Transdermal estradiol was linked with better episodic memory, while oral estradiol was tied to prospective ...