Tirzepatide (Zepbound, Mounjaro) is a dual-agonist GLP-1 medication. It works like a GLP-1 agonist, but also targets a ...

While birth control is typically safe to use, there are side effects beyond the short-term concerns about weight gain or breakthrough bleeding. Some of these risks are limited by the type of birth ...

Hormone therapy with estradiol (with or without progestin) showed no effect on cognition in both early and late postmenopausal women in a new placebo-controlled randomized trial. The ELITE study is ...

Bencivenga is the special projects manager at PharmedOut, a rational prescribing project at Georgetown University Medical Center. Fugh-Berman is a professor at GUMC and director of PharmedOut. If ...

Hormone therapy slows hormone-sensitive cancer growth by blocking your body’s ability to make hormones like estrogen and progesterone or blocking the effects of these hormones. But lower levels of ...

As dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases become more common worldwide, researchers are searching urgently for ways to protect the brain as we age. One area attracting growing attention is ...

Removing the most dire warning from hormonal therapies to treat menopause is likely the right call, women’s health experts in Colorado say, but exuberance for the treatments could be getting ahead of ...

Shilpa Gajarawala struggled with hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems and brain fog. But given her history of breast cancer, treating these menopausal symptoms with hormone therapy wasn’t an ...

For many women in the United States who encounter drenching night sweats, sudden hot flashes, debilitating exhaustion and other menopausal symptoms, small estradiol patches worn on the skin have ...

The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an ...