A study of 400 men ages 20 to 50 found that estrogen in men is important for keeping fat down and testosterone is important for muscle size and strength — and that both are involved with sexual desire, Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, an associate clinical professor of urology at Harvard Medical School, explained on “CBS This Morning.”
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WHI Trialists Pan Hysterectomy Analysis
An analysis asserting that thousands of women have died because they avoided estrogen therapy oversimplifies issues raised by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study and highlights the limitations of subgroup analyses, WHI investigators told MedPage Today.
How Estrogen May Help Prevent UTIs After Menopause
Estrogen treatment delivered vaginally may help prevent repeat urinary tract infections in postmenopausal women, new laboratory research suggests.
Fertility Preservation in Women With Breast Cancer: Challenges and Opportunities
Given the lack of long-term data, we are often left with more questions than answers about determining the appropriate management of these patients. Caring for women with estrogen receptor–positive tumors and BRCA mutations can add additional complexity. Women with hormone receptor–positive tumors face years of estrogen deprivation and/or endocrine therapy that is contraindicated during pregnancy. BRCA mutation carriers may also consider risk-reducing surgeries to decrease the risk of second breast cancers or to prevent ovarian cancers, thus further limiting fertility potential.
Health Tip: Recognize Common Symptoms of Menopause
Menopause — the point at which a woman’s menstrual cycle stops for good — usually occurs when the ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
Use of Any Type of Hormones for Menopause Symptoms Raises Breast Cancer Risk, Study Suggests
It is already known that taking pills that combine estrogen and progestin — the most common type of hormone therapy — can increase breast cancer risk. But women who no longer have a uterus can take estrogen alone, which was thought to be safe and possibly even slightly beneficial in terms of cancer risk.
What’s a Hormone?
by Fred Licciardi, M.D.
And how do they help us ovulate? Hormones are chemicals that are made in one part of the body and act in another part of the body. For example, estrogen, our favorite hormone, is made in the ovaries and acts in the …