For years, Cathleen “Cat” Brown, a Philadelphia obstetrician and gynecologist, would listen to patients complaining of hot flashes, brain fog, and painful sex and prescribe estrogen as a safe option ...

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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 ...

Years after warnings that estrogen therapy could lead to increased cancer risk, a new study has found that it in addition to alleviating hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, it carries little ...

Women in central Ohio are experiencing difficulty finding estrogen patches due to a surge in demand caused by the FDA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images) Influencers are breathlessly declaring that estrogen during perimenopause has been proved to dramatically reduce ...

Fibroids have been linked to a high level of estrogen in women. Some lifestyle changes can help to balance the hormones, causing symptomatic relief and possible reduction in the growth of fibroids in ...

What to make of estrogen? Does the female sex hormone's potential to protect women, and even men, against an array of illnesses foreshadow a research bonanza? Or will its use, in natural and synthetic ...

Female hormones—namely progesterone and estrogen—are underrecognized contributors to addictive behavior in women. Women are more vulnerable to developing addictions than men. In particular, women ...