Hormone therapies for menopause will no longer carry a black box warning about serious risks such as breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday. In the ...

An increasing number of women who use estrogen patches to help deal with perimenopause and menopause symptoms have been ...

The warning label placed on all estrogen-based treatments since 2003 was based on an outdated and flawed government-funded ...

Prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy plummeted after a warning label was added to the menopause treatments decades ago. After new analyses of data that led to the warning, that may change.

Menopausal hormone replacement therapy (MHT) was once routinely used to relieve symptoms of menopause and protect against osteoporosis, heart disease, and possibly Alzheimer’s disease. It was thought ...

Hormone therapy for menopause is safer than doctors had previously thought, new research says. It may also bring unexpected ...

Dawn Dean used to go down the aisle of supplements at the drugstore, looking for the answer to her hot flashes, night sweats and increasingly foggy brain. It was only when she turned to her ...

With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

Women in their 40's, 50's and 60's are juggling a lot. Often they are not only caregiving for their children but also for their parents. They are sometimes stuck in their careers or find themselves ...

For decades, doctors have been puzzled by why women develop Alzheimer’s disease at nearly twice the rate of men. There are an estimated 7 million people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer’s, with that ...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been shown to reduce bone loss in postmenopausal women, but there is limited research on long-term outcomes in real-world populations. In the largest study to ...