News tagged with 'Hormone Replacement Therapy'

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.

Wyeth pharmaceutical company has been paying ghostwriters to produce favorable medical journal articles for its drugs. Particularly the female hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company’s involvement in medical ghostwriting.

Women should not lose the right to sue drug makers over dangerous drugs and devices, a New York nonprofit says, refering to an upcoming high-profile federal preemption case. Many unsafe drugs marketed to women concern reproduction, injuring and making infertile otherwise healthy women.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Upjohn have been ordered to pay an Arkansas woman more than $27 million dollars after a jury linked her breast cancer to hormone replacement therapy. Some of the HRT drugs are made from a pregnant mare's urine. 

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

Postmenopausal women who suffer from Alzheimer's disease may worsen their memory loss by undergoing estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), says a new study conducted by researchers with the University of Arizona. As part of the study, seen in this month's issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, a journal published by the Ameri

Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley presented evidence to members of the American Association for Cancer Research this week that suggests short-term use of pregnancy-level estrogen may reduce a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. Because a full-term pregnancy at an early age greatly reduces

The U.S. government issued a warning Tuesday regarding the use of estrogen and progestin supplements to prevent osteoporosis and other ailments. In July, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that long-term treatment with hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) might cause breast cancer, strokes, heart attacks,