Transgender youth have a number of research-backed medical options available to them. The multidisciplinary approach ranges from promoting family support to hormone treatments to surgery.
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Cow's milk naturally raises levels of a growth factor strongly implicated in breast cancer risk.
Why does COVID-19 hit men harder than women? Is the disparity in mortality rates due to male hormones or an underlying difference in the male versus female immune system?
Research in mice shows that estrogen replacement therapy has the greatest chance of reducing cardiovascular disease risk if it is begun soon after menopause.
Worker naked mole-rats take care of their colony's young even though they aren't the pups' actual parents. New research suggests the queen gets them ready via hormones in her poop.
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.
The cost of cancer drugs is killing patients and it needs to stop
In recent times, we have learnt more about the connections between the “reproductive” or gonadal hormones and the brain, and how they affect not only women but men as well.
A by-product of cholesterol has been found to enhance the growth and spread of the most common types of breast cancer. Mimicking…
The authors of the 2003 Million Women Study were wrong to conclude their investigation proved that hormone replacement therapy caused cancer, according to a series of articles published this week in the…
Using the birth control pill may reduce a woman’s bone density, according to US university researchers. Women using a pill…
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Jayashri Kulkarni is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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