What Doctors Don't Tell YouI have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
How can it be that recent studies are so at odds with previous ones? The early research into HRT is beset by a number of problems, including:
* a lack of control groups, making it difficult to see the effects of HRT compared with non-users
One of HRT's big selling points its supposed ability to prevent osteoporosis, and so reduce the likelihood of fractures has been seriously undermined by recent American research. This study (see ...
Women who go onto hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after endometriosis may find the drug reactivates the problem. ...
Once again in medicine, statistics have triumphed over common sense. ...
New data from Australia add to the growing scepticism about the effects of rub-on progesterone creams as a miracle cure for everything from menopausal symptoms to osteoporosis.
A recent report further cripples the last vestiges of support for hormone replacement therapy as a must-have treatment for menopause.
Reader's Corner
A new trial has shown that supplementing with HRT does not improve cognitive function in women with Alzheimer's disease (AD). ...
In the highly successful marketing campaign for HRT, drug companies have managed to pitch the drug as an all purpose cure all of the bugbears of old age. Defenders of HRT haul out a roll call of ...
