Hormone therapy is widely used to treat menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats. But scientists have long ...

Many women across the country are struggling to get their hands on estrogen patches after the FDA removed black box warning ...

Experts weigh in.

Women enduring hot flashes and night sweats from menopause should have treatment covered by health insurance, two Democratic ...

A large retrospective cohort study finds some cardiovascular benefits when HT is started earlier but generally supports guidelines discouraging use in older women.

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.

Hormone therapy for menopause was all the rage around the turn of the 21st century, until a single major study appeared to blow up what everyone thought they knew about the treatment and who might ...

Sloane Heller woke up one summer morning in her suburban Kansas City home in 2023 with a loud internal alarm. “I didn’t feel like I’m in my own body,” Heller said. Across the state in St. Louis, ...

Emily Padgett has spent months trying to get her hands on estrogen patches, bouncing between pharmacies, transferring prescriptions and switching brands three times. For a couple of anxious weeks in ...

Estrogen patches, one of the most common forms of hormone therapy for women, are becoming harder to find, and some manufacturers say a recent action by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have solved a longstanding puzzle in ovarian cancer treatment: why anti-estrogen therapy often fails even when tumors express the hormone receptor that should make ...