What Doctors Don't Tell You...
Findings from the US Nurses' Health Study showed that women who use oestrogen replacement therapy at just 0.625 mg/day have 1.35 times the risk of stroke of non users. Those taking 1.25 mg/day or ...
Twenty years of prospective follow up in the US Nurses' Health Study shows that daily HRT containing oestrogen doses of 0.625 mg or higher plus progestin may increase the risk of stroke by up to 1 ...
WHY TAKE HRT? Vitamin D is just as good, and safer
Livial (tibolone) is "the only HRT licensed to improve mood and libido", purrs the copyline of the ad aimed at your GP. The James Bond analogy is coupled with a very happy couple, smiling contende ...
If you are an older woman, modern medicine would have you believe you've basically got two choices: take a drug for an indeterminate amount of time, or turn into a humpbacked, sexless, dottering o ...
Reader's Corner
Women who go onto hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after endometriosis may find the drug reactivates the problem. ...
New evidence suggests that women don't want to take long term hormone replacement therapy. ...
Premarin is one of the range of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs. As such, it is given three pages of closely-typed text in the American drugs bible, the Physicians' Desk Reference 1995, wh ...
