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

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

Dawn Dean used to go down the aisle of supplements at the drugstore, looking for the answer to her hot flashes, night sweats and increasingly foggy brain. It was only when she turned to her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, doctors have been puzzled by why women develop Alzheimer’s disease at nearly twice the rate of men. There are an ...

Postmenopausal women who have used hormone therapy may be biologically younger than those who have not, a retrospective study of women in the U.K. Biobank suggested. Examining nine biomarkers linked ...

Pooled across 34 studies data from 4.5+ million women showed that MHT use increased breast cancer odds by 15% versus non-use, ...

Menopause can have profound effects on heart health, yet many people are unaware of this important connection. The hormonal shifts occurring during menopause mark the end of a woman’s reproductive ...

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, ...

Menopause symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, brain fog, mood changes and sleep problems can be a significant disruption. Some people are turning to supplements to manage those issues rather than ...

Women who start early menopausal hormone therapy after menopause have a lower risk for osteoporosis over a 5-year period, according to data presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons ...

Hormone replacement therapy can slash Alzheimer's risk by nearly a third, but only if women start it within five years of menopause—wait too long and it backfires.