Menopausal estrogen-only therapy appears to lower risk of mortality significantly without harmful side effects among women treated in their 50s who had a hysterectomy and their ovaries removed, ...

For more than 20 years, women entering menopause were told to be afraid of hormone replacement therapy. Headlines warned of ...

ATLANTA — Five years after a landmark study scared millions of women off hormones for menopause symptoms, new research suggests the pills may offer some heart benefits for certain younger women who ...

New evidence suggests there may be a critical window for hormone replacement therapy use in women to maintain estrogen levels ...

CHICAGO — Estrogen replacement therapy significantly improved bone density in frail, elderly women, according to a study that suggests beginning the treatment even late in life may be beneficial. The ...

Post-menopausal estrogen therapy does not appear to protect women in their 60s and older from heart disease, but researchers say it may have some protective effect for women in their 50s. The Women’s ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 78-year-old mother has taken compounded estrogen since menopause. She swears that it has kept her from getting Alzheimer’s disease and other brain diseases. I am 54 and have been in ...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a medical treatment designed to restore optimal hormone levels in people whose body’s hormone production has decreased. HRT’s purpose? Relieving the often ...

1. Harms and benefits of estrogen therapy among women with a hysterectomy appear to depend on age when therapy was started and whether women still had their ovaries Patients who started estrogen over ...

DALLAS — Sept. 16, 2007 — New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers show that a byproduct of cholesterol metabolism interferes with the beneficial effects estrogen has on the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 78-year-old mother has taken compounded estrogen since menopause. She swears that it has kept her from getting Alzheimer’s disease and other brain diseases. I am 54 and have been in ...

Seeking to better understand the key role the female hormone estrogen plays in maintaining energy balance and weight control, a group led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine looked into ...