Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) balances a woman’s hormones as she nears or enters menopause. During menopause, the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which regulate the female reproductive system, ...

In July 2002, obstetrician-gynecologist JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, had just settled into her afternoon routine seeing patients at ...

Hormone therapy (also called hormonal therapy or endocrine therapy) slows or stops the growth of hormone-sensitive tumors by blocking the body’s ability to produce hormones or by interfering with the ...

Most androgens are made in the testicles. Hormone therapy keeps prostate cancer cells from using androgens. This can shrink the tumors and/or slow their growth. Hormone therapy is a common ...

The timing of MHT usage also played a key role. Women who last used MHT at an older age showed greater brain age gaps and ...

Although some controversy about hormone therapy was generated by the preliminary results reported from the Women's Health ...

While new guidelines for preventing strokes strongly advise against the use of oral estrogen after age 59, The Menopause ...

“Aging is the number one risk factor for chronic disease in the modern world, and the ovaries are the fastest-aging organ—aging at least two times the rate of other tissues in the body,” Garrison says ...

Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder in girls, underpinned by mutations in the X-linked gene MECP2. In their ...

my recommendation to women when they go on hormone replacement therapy, they do it around the perimenopause when they are having the maximum symptoms, that they take it for menopausal symptoms and ...

Within a year, the FDA had put a “black box” warning on estrogen products used in hormone therapy—the most serious warning the agency places on prescription drugs—about the risk of ...