Estrogen

How Safe Are Low-Dose Estrogen Vaginal Creams?

By NWHN Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Comments Off on How Safe Are Low-Dose Estrogen Vaginal Creams?

As the research currently stands, it appears that vaginal estrogen is a safe and effective treatment for vaginal discomfort due to menopause, and has a much lower risk of the cancers and cardiovascular events typically associated with hormone therapy.

Hot Flashes

By NWHN Staff | Jul 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Hot Flashes

Hot flashes are the most common symptom of menopause, and are extremely aggravating to women. While some women never have hot flashes and others have mild or infrequent hot flashes, some women experience dozens each day.

Menopause Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer

By NWHN Staff | Jul 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Menopause Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer

Since the early 2000s, the use of menopausal hormone therapy has continued to decline after the initial findings of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) showed an increased risk of breast cancer and serious cardiac events with the use of estrogen plus progestin.

Menopause Hormone Therapy and Heart Disease

By NWHN Staff | Jul 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Menopause Hormone Therapy and Heart Disease

No form of estrogen, or estrogen plus progestin, has been proven to prevent heart disease. Yet millions of women have taken these powerful drugs, encouraged by physicians who believed that hormone therapy prevented heart disease.

Menopause Hormone Therapy: Timing Doesn’t Matter

By NWHN Staff | Jul 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Menopause Hormone Therapy: Timing Doesn’t Matter

Menopause hormone therapy works to relieve symptoms whether a woman is 41 and adjusting to the aftermath of surgical menopause, or she’s 71 and enjoying sexual activity with a new partner.

Menopause Hormone Therapy Overview

By NWHN Staff | Jul 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Menopause Hormone Therapy Overview

The widespread popularity of hormone therapy in the United States is a triumph of marketing over science and advertising over common sense. Drug companies and many health care providers view menopause as a disease to be treated.

Public Health or Private Profit?

By Cindy Pearson | Sep 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Public Health or Private Profit?

What the heck is an estrogen-promotion article doing in the American Journal of Public Health?  That’s what I asked myself a few weeks ago when the “The Mortality Toll of Estrogen Avoidance” was published in the influential periodical produced by the American Public Health Association (APHA).1