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Byline: Aria Munro SOMERSET, N.J. /eNewsChannels/ - From the blogosphere to mainstream media, there's been a recent-and disturbing-buzz on a connection between hormone replacement therapy and a higher risk for [...]

Mar. 4--A new study of hormone replacement therapy has found that higher rates of cancer persist years after women stopped taking a popular estrogen and progesterone combination. The research, the [...]

Incidence and mortality data from WHI In 2002, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study was stopped early after 5.6 years when data showed that combination estrogen and progesterone therapy increased [...]

Dysmenorrhea Author: Andrew S. Coco, MD, Associate Professor, Family Practice Residency, Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Penn. Peer Reviewers: Sarah L. Berga, MD, Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences, [...]

Dr. Donald G. Stein has for 40 years researched brain damage and its treatment, finding that women recover more easily from brain injuries than men due to the presence of progesterone, a hormone men do not possess. His research has had to proceed with minimal funding, and without the backing government and the pharmaceutical industry.

Thousands of women are demanding access to natural progesterone cream which is banned as an over-the-counter product in the UK because it is a hormone yet is freely available as a moisturiser in the US. The medical establishment has dismissed claims by US physician John Lee that progesterone cream repairs any damage caused by osteoporosis by building bone. Nevertheless trials involving the use of a combination of natural progesterone cream and natural oestrogen cream as a possible alternative to hormone replacement therapy will shortly begin at Chelsea and Westminster hospital.

Since the early 1990's, doctors have prescribed synthetic hormones to older women in order to alleviate symptoms associated with menopause, such as hot flashes, night sweats, sleeplessness, and vaginal dryness. […]