The US Food and Drug Administration plans to make changes soon to the lengthy black box warning on many hormone replacement products for women with menopause symptoms, Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary ...

Scientists have uncovered how the plant hormone auxin helps roots bend and downwards towards gravity—a process called gravitropism—even after encountering obstacles in soil. Root gravitropism, which ...

Hormone replacement therapy might protect a woman's brain against Alzheimer's disease, but only if the timing's right, researchers say. Women who start hormone therapy within five years of menopause ...

The balance between estrogen and androgens plays a role in blood pressure (BP) regulation apart from the absolute hormone levels alone, according to new data from a review of 14 studies presented at ...

Hot flashes and sleepless nights are just some of the symptoms of perimenopause that have been disrupting Isabel Kallman's life. At 53 years old, Kallman's hormones naturally started to decline, and ...

Women are at much greater risk of dementia than men—as many as two thirds of people in the US with Alzheimer’s disease are women—and likely for a mix of reasons that experts are still parsing out. One ...

A trendy drink making the rounds on social media, the "cortisol cocktail," is said to reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the body. Influencers claim the non-alcoholic concoction can help ...

If you’re a woman in your forties or fifties, you’re probably no stranger to the flood of advice and solutions flying at you from every corner of the internet about balancing your hormones. But what ...

Researchers identified almost two dozen previously unknown genetic variants linked to type 2 diabetes by including participants' hormone levels in their analysis. Yan V. Sun of Emory University, U.S., ...

Sleep is often treated as downtime, a passive break between the real business of being awake. But a new study has revealed that sleep is active, essential biology, showing how the brain uses the night ...

The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminizing hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an ...

Busy moms might be sending their babies the wrong signal if they feed evening breast milk that was expressed in the morning, a new study suggests. The composition of breast milk changes throughout the ...