There's more news now that might make women think twice about hormone replacement therapy.
Some tout the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms, while others emphasize the risks.
Two years ago, the same studies showed that hormone replacement therapy didn't prevent disease.
The survey was carried out for GlaxoSmithKline, which manufactures one form of nicotine replacement therapy.
The proof, apparently, that taking hormone replacement therapy does significantly increase the risk of breast cancer.
But doctors and women had heard for years dramatic claims that hormone replacement therapy had great benefits.
The team studied over 2, 500 women involved in hormone replacement therapy - whose average age was 66.
The question now, Hsia says, is whether hormone replacement therapy provides a demonstrable improvement in quality of life.
On a routine visit to a new obstetrics-gynecologist, a woman recalls being recommended hormone replacement therapy to prevent osteoporosis.
Armstrong works primarily in cancer prevention, but she says even so, there are times when hormone replacement therapy makes sense.
She says hormone replacement therapy is just one of several factors that nudge up a woman's risk of breast cancer.
Still, it may be a useful treatment for women who are leery of hormone replacement therapy and its associated risks.
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"A higher proportion of the women taking hormone replacement therapy had cardiovascular events than women in the control groups, " they said.
He suggested hormone replacement therapy was unlikely to be responsible since few of those involved in the study had taken HRT.
Then when a randomized trial showed that hormonal replacement therapy actually raised the early risk of heart attack, women were understandably upset.
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The older studies were all studies that merely followed women who chose on their own whether or not to take hormone-replacement therapy.
Shire research is aimed at developing an enzyme-replacement therapy, while the planned research at Nationwide Children's will focus on potential gene therapy.
Some women on hormone replacement therapy even have to pay twice for their treatment because they use two different sorts of drugs.
Women undergoing hormone replacement therapy may be vulnerable to developing large breasts.
Once upon a time, maybe three decades ago, people thought hormone replacement therapy was the fountain of youth for women going through menopause.
Northern Ireland drug company Galen Holdings plan to launch a ring for delivering hormone replacement therapy in Britain over the next few months.
It was another big NIH study, the Women's Health Initiative, that showed that an estrogen-replacement therapy had unforeseen risks of breast cancer and heart attack.
On the bright side, new data on estrogen replacement therapy could be better for Wyeth than many expected (see " Wyeth Lucks Out On Hormone Study").
Why is it that HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) is a multi billion dollar industry and both are legally prescribing ANABOLIC STEROIDS!
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This is largely due to a decreased use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which has been shown to increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.
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The researchers, from the University of Florida in Gainesville, carried out the study after observing that post-menopausal women under hormone replacement therapy were protected against strokes.
Estrogen hormone replacement therapy seemed to have all sorts of benefits based on observational studies, but they vanished under the more rigorous lens of controlled clinical trials.
Harriet Millward, of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said a number of studies had hinted that testosterone replacement therapy might have positive effects on mood or mental processes.
Dr Robert Anda, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said nicotine replacement therapy might not be sufficient to help people with long-standing emotional problems.
One of the biggest things to be aware of is that most men never stop testosterone replacement therapy, says Dr. Gregory Broderick, a urologist with the Mayo Clinic.
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