Menopause Hormone Therapy

Ghostwritten Articles Helped Sell Hormones

By Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD | Nov 26, 2009 | Comments Off on Ghostwritten Articles Helped Sell Hormones

If you or your mother became menopausal between the 1960s and 90s, you know that most women were pressured to take hormones from their first hot flash until their death. A friend joked that all women would be clutching a vial of Premarin on their death-beds. Joking aside, all Network members should be proud to be part of the only national membership organization that consistently opposed estrogen for disease prevention.

Rx for Change: Why Suzanne Somers is Wrong About Hormones

By Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD | May 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Rx for Change: Why Suzanne Somers is Wrong About Hormones

Suzanne Somers looks great. In interviews and a series of books, the actress attributes her seeming agelessness — not to mention increased energy, libido, and a host of other benefits — to her use of “bioidentical” hormones.

Harmless Hormones? Bah, Humbug!

By Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD | Sep 1, 2004 | Comments Off on Harmless Hormones? Bah, Humbug!

Do you need your hormones ‘balanced?’ Some alternative doctors are promoting hormone cocktails to cure what ails you, and if you think nothing ails you, well, maybe that’s just your haywire hormones talking.