The number of patients prescribed hormonal therapy plummeted after 2002, due to findings experts have since questioned. With better understanding, more and more people are using these treatments.
Testosterone therapy is often essential for the health and well-being of transmasculine people. The choice to stop it to pursue pregnancy can be a difficult one.
Hormone replacement therapy can help women manage menopause symptoms.
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A sudden uptick in demand for HRT may be one reason behind the sudden shortages.
Access to transgender medical care has been under attack in many places in the U.S., and protesters, like those seen here in Texas, are pushing back.
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Across the US, politicians, activists and transgender people are fighting over the right to access transgender medical care. Rarely is the care itself actually discussed. This is that discussion.
There’s a lot of information to take in. So it’s OK to discuss options for managing your menopausal symptoms over several consultations with your GP.
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While evidence has indicated women who take menopausal hormone therapy have a marginally increased risk of breast cancer, it’s equally important we talk about the benefits of the treatment.
This isn’t the first time scientific research has found a link between menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer.
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A study published recently in The Lancet indicated menopausal hormone therapy is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. How can we interpret the results?
New research shows that the timing of estrogen treatment is very important.
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Research in mice shows that estrogen replacement therapy has the greatest chance of reducing cardiovascular disease risk if it is begun soon after menopause.
Hot flushes and night sweats are the most common symptom of a female reproductive milestone known as the menopause.
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The root of the black cohosh plant has a long history of use in Europe and became popular around the world after receiving German approval as a non-prescription drug for hot flushes in 2000.
Doctors and patients should appreciate the many roles estrogens play in the body.
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Estrogens also have many positive effects on mental health, cognitive function, libido and protection of the brain, possibly even slowing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Some women breeze through perimenopause and never have a symptom, whereas others have a horrid time.
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Three out of four women going through menopause suffer hot flushes, and suffer they do. But research shows the way society views ageing and menopause can reduce the severity of symptoms.
It’s not for doctors, researchers or other commentators to decide whether the risks of menopausal hormone therapy outweigh the benefits for individual women.
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The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) doubles the risk of breast cancer in menopausal women. But that doesn’t mean it has no place in alleviating moderate to severe symptoms of menopause.
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We tend to think that only ovaries produce oestrogen.
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