Women under 60 can benefit from hormone therapy to treat hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. That's according to a ...

In 2002, everything changed. A specific drug called Prempro—a combination of a synthetic estrogen and a synthetic progestin—was found to cause an increased risk of breast cancer in women ...

Premarin is a medication that contains several estrogens. Prempro is a medication that contains several estrogens and a progestin.

This is exemplified by the WHI trial. More than 8000 women were randomized to receive Prempro (0.625 mg conjugated equine estrogens and 2.5 mg medroxyprogesterone acetate). Whether these women ...

Prempro had given me a headache and pushed up my usually normal blood pressure, both occasional side effects of oral estrogens. Midrin, not advised for patients with high blood pressure because it ...

Medscape Women's Health Editorial Board member Dr. Andrew M. Kaunitz, Professor and Assistant Chair at the University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville and Co-Principal Investigator at ...

was stopped after five years because preliminary data found more breast cancers in women taking a form of HRT called Prempro. Instead of an expected heart benefit, there was a 29 per cent increase ...