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.
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Here’s what the evidence says.
Tracking the many physical and emotional symptoms of menopause with a website, app or diary can help women better monitor their health.
Despite what some media outlets have reported, this latest study only shows a link between the two.
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.
It’s still unclear whether HRT can protect brain function and prevent dementia.
A sudden uptick in demand for HRT may be one reason behind the sudden shortages.
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.
Your GP will discuss the risks and benefits of menopausal hormone therapy, taking into account a host of factors.
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.
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?
Research in mice shows that estrogen replacement therapy has the greatest chance of reducing cardiovascular disease risk if it is begun soon after menopause.
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.
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.
Every woman who reaches midlife will experience menopause when her ovaries eventually run out of eggs. So what’s happening with her hormones?
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.
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.
There are pros and cons to HRT. Whether or not to use it comes down to personal choice.
Natural or bioidentical hormones are plant-derived products closely resembling the oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone produced in the body. The hormones are made up (compounded) in pharmacies to…
The female sex hormone oestrogen can be produced and released from the brain as well as the ovaries, according to a study. The research, recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that the…
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Chair of Women's Health, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Reproductive Health, The University of Edinburgh
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Emeritus Director, Hudson Institute
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University
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PhD student in health literacy, Deakin University
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Professor of Paediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Loughborough University
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Member, IMPART (Inflammation & Metabolism, Physical Ability, & Research Translation) Network, Dalhousie University
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Director of the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and co-director of the Child and Adolescent Trans/Gender Center for Health, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University
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Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor and Endocrinologist, Monash University
