Women Health

Estrogen is an important hormone for women and after menopause the estrogen levels of the body decrease. As a result several uncomfortable effects, women may think about the estrogen replacement therapy benefits. Benefits of Estrogen Hormone Replacement Therapy The most common benefits of hormone replacement include controlling the symptoms of menopause, preventing osteoporosis, preventing heart [...]

Bio identical hormone replacement therapy or BHRT is also called natural hormone therapy or bio identical hormone therapy. It refers to the usage of identical hormones with endogenous hormones. Some of the hormones that are used in natural hormone therapy include estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, estriol and estrone. BHRT is looked upon as an alternative [...]

HRT stands for Hormone Replacement Therapy. This is something that is given to many women going through menopause. The majority of women will experience some HRT side effects during the first two or three months; this is just the body getting used to it. There are different types of therapy and it is worth looking [...]

Menopause, either natural or surgical can cause many unwanted side effects, and among them could be weight gain. For treating these symptoms, particularly if severe, HRT is often prescribed however there is another connection between HRT and Weight Gain. HRT may be prescribed to combat weight gain, but many women tend to put on weight [...]

When we speak of what is HRT, the term HRT stands for Hormone Replacement Therapy which can take different forms of hormonal treatments. However what is most commonly understood by the term HRT is when it is used for treatment of menopausal symptoms. What is HRT used for? When women undergo menopause their ovaries stop [...]

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has had a complex history and has always invited controversy. From being the gold standard for treating and controlling menopause symptoms, it has been reduced to a treatment to be avoided for its negative repercussions. Multiple studies have shown that the negative impact of HRT may outweigh possible benefits. While it [...]

With the amount of bad press that Hormone Replacement Therapy has recently received, being linked to heart disease and cancer and so on, many women would hesitate to even consider HRT as a viable option for treating menopause symptoms. However, there is an argument in favor of HRT which makes sense for particularly severe menopause [...]

For a long time now, the possible side effects of taking hormone therapy drugs have made them an unattractive option for women and here is further evidence to substantiate this – Landmark research conducted by the Women’s Health Initiative study has shown that women who used combination hormone replacement therapy (sold as Prempro by Pfizer [...]

Menopause is a scary event in some women’s lives primarily because of the physical discomforts and emotional bouts brought about by the hormonal changes. To counteract the ill effects of this dreadful period, Hormonal Replacement Therapy (HRT) has been the management of choice. However, there are benefits as well as drawbacks from its long term [...]

After the results of the Million Women Study were released they showed that over a million women in the UK alone stopped using hormone replacement therapy after evidence from the 2003 report showed that HRT increased the risk of developing breast cancer by two. The study also drew on results from the US Women’s Health [...]