News tagged with 'HRT'

There is good new and bad news to report about breast cancer, but overall, the American Cancer Society in this 2009-2010 report says that the deaths rates have been steadily declining about 2 percent a year.

Women entering perimenopause have lapses in verbal and working memory, and brain processing, this long-term study shows. The good news is the setback seems to be temporary.  

Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT is still used by women with a reported 30 million prescriptions written each year. Now, findings from the Women's Health Initiative indicate that combining estrogen and progestin can lead to a 59 percent increase in the risk of death from a non-small cell lung cancer.

The state appeals court in Houston has ruled Wyeth must face a personal injury lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Prempro, a hormone-replacement drug, caused her breast cancer.

New analysis of a large federal study suggests menopause hormones taken for five years doubles the risk of breast cancer, revealing compelling findings of the dangers associated with these still-popular pills.

A new study published in the European Heart Journal suggests hormone therapy replacement, or HRT, does not raise the risk of heart attack in women, but rather how and when it is administered.

Researchers, looking for a simple blood test to determine if a woman is a good candidate for hormone replacement therapy (HRT), find that when the ratio of “bad” to “good” cholesterol is high, she is not a good candidate for HRT of estrogen alone or estrogen plus progestin.

A report published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association offers circumstantial evidence that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer. During the study, researchers followed 190,458 women age 30 and over, determining that the rate of two types of invasive breast cancer increased 65 percent

Preliminary results from a study on the safety of the hormone therapy medication Prempro indicate the drug may have a negative impact on women's memories and their ability to comprehend ideas and surrounding events. Expected to be published in a major medical journal next month, the study is a separate arm of the Wome

Diabetic women undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increase their risk of death from ischemic heart disease, according to a new report published in the February 22nd issue of the British Medical Journal. Investigating the causes of myocardial infarction and ischemic heart disease, the study examined data ob

Results from last year's Women's Health Initiative study on the benefits of combination hormone replacement therapy indicate that HRT is associated with an increased risk of stroke, even in the first year of use. In the trial, which was halted in 2002 after researchers determined estrogen plus progestin therapy wa

A new report released Thursday by pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts reveals that more than half of the women in the United States undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) continued treatment last year despite reports that HRT may cause heart disease, strokes, blood clots and breast cancer. According to the

Fueling the ongoing debate over the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) added the entire class of steroidal estrogens Wednesday to its registry of "known human carcinogens." Linked to ovarian cancer, estrogen therapy has been a hot topic in the m

A new European study on the effects of hormone replacement therapy indicates that progestin, not estrogen, may cause breast cancer in women. Presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Swedish Society of Medicine in Goteborg, the study involved 30,000 women, including 3,500 taking hormone-replacement medications to

Adding further controversy to the debate over the use of hormone replacement therapy, researchers announced this week that long-term treatment may decrease a woman's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Scientists with the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health System in Washington, John Hopkins University, Duke Unive