What Doctors Don't Tell YouScientists believe they have figured out why hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has caused coronary heart disease. Apparently it's to do with estrogen that relaxes the blood vessels in a younger woman, and then suddenly does the opposite once the...
New research has put a dent in the theories of hormone replacement therapy proponents that HRT protects against heart disease.
Despite a tireless sales campaign by doctors and the drug industry, half of all women prescribed HRT stop within six months, according to a recent survey by the National Opinions Polls, and four o ...
Long term use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the Pill greatly increases the risk of breast cancer in older women, researchers have found. ...
Women with low bone density after menopause can slow or prevent osteoporosis by a combination of exercise and calcium supplementation to an acceptable degree without the side effects of hormone re ...
A major HRT trial in the US has been halted because the combination of conjugated equine oestrogen (0.625 mg/ day) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/day) (Prempro) simply did more harm than good.
HRT: Modesty forbids, but we told you so
The benefits of soy, touted as a wonder healthfood for menopausal women with benefits ranging from lowering cholesterol to preventing osteoporosis, just don’t stack up.
Although the conventional wisdom has it that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) protects a woman's heart after menopause, two new studies show that it is in fact bad for the heart, and why. ...
Widespread use of synthetic estrogens like the contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy may account for the dramatic fall in sperm counts of men over the past 30 to 50 years. ...
