Hot flashes, brain fog, poor sleep, irritability, and low libido are often dismissed as an inevitable part of aging. But according to Alan McCool, MD, FACS, women don’t have to simply “push through” ...

Estrogen exerts neuroprotective effects on the brain, and the reduction in endogenous estrogen after menopause increases women’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), cerebrovascular disease, or both.

Menopause occurs when people assigned female at birth stop having menstrual periods and can no longer get pregnant. During the years leading up to menopause, known as perimenopause, the ovaries start ...

The latest research on menopause hormone therapy is reassuring, showing little to no association with stroke and blood clots, ...

Endocrine therapy is a way of treating conditions such as cancer using hormones. Also known as hormone therapy, it involves adjusting the levels of certain hormones, such as testosterone, estrogen, ...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) balances a woman’s hormones as she nears or enters menopause. During menopause, the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which regulate the female reproductive system, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy after menopause may interfere with the accuracy of mammograms used to screen for breast cancer -- and the risk may be greater with hormones ...

For the past decade, Dr. Heather Hirsch has tried to convince women that hormone therapy drugs are the best way to treat symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. But warning labels on estrogen have ...