What Doctors Don't Tell YouIt never rains but it pours for the HRT industry. One of the most lucrative drugs markets came crashing down with the sudden stopping of the Women’s Health Initiative trial when, last year, it was discovered that oestrogen plus progestin...
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A new trial has shown that supplementing with HRT does not improve cognitive function in women with Alzheimer's disease (AD). ...
Once again in medicine, statistics have triumphed over common sense. ...
Scientists 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.
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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) doubles the risk of women developing systemic lupus erythematosus, which can cause severe inflammation of the blood vessels, tumours of the skin, and kidney disor ...
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 ...
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.
