Doctors do not recommend hormone replacement therapy (HRT) following a hysterectomy unless a person has had their ovaries removed or experiences menopausal symptoms that affect their quality of life.

Women who use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for at least a decade before their final period may see a reduced risk of breast cancer, heart attacks, or strokes, according to a new analysis.

In follow-up studies of the women involved in the large federally funded Women’s Health Initiative, researchers found that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) used after menopause not only increased the ...

When Kendal-Rose Horner was in her twenties she was prescribed four different types of antidepressants in a bid to combat persistent angry outbursts and depressive episodes. None of them worked. As ...

Many women going through menopause turn to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to help alleviate symptoms like hot flashes, vaginal dryness and insomnia. But does HRT help with weight loss, too? And ...

Two decades after the Women’s Health Initiative study, evolving research on menopause hormone therapy is shedding new light ...

There is little evidence that HRT causes people to gain weight. Weight gain during menopause has more to do with the changes in metabolism than whether a person takes HRT. Hormone replacement therapy ...

Breast cancer survivors with severe menopausal symptoms should be supported to make an informed decision about whether to have hormone replacement therapy or not, according to an interdisciplinary ...

Women are at much greater risk of dementia than men—as many as two thirds of people in the US with Alzheimer’s disease are women—and likely for a mix of reasons that experts are still parsing out. One ...