Word: estrogen
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Menopause is a difficult time of life for many women. Brought on, usually between the ages of 40 and 50, primarily by a decrease in the production of estrogen, a hormone, it is accompanied by irritability, hot flashes, depression, marked physical changes, and the cessation of menstruation. Thus, since the 1950s, when doctors began to prescribe doses of estrogen that alleviated the effects of menopause, the treatment has become increasingly popular with millions of women. Between 1963 and 1973, for example, the dollar value of estrogen prescriptions increased nearly four times. But suspicion has been growing recently that estrogen treatment...
...internists themselves maintain that they present a standard and balanced repertoire and don't push any particular methods. Wacker, for instance, sizes up the pill to prospective users by first admitting that it has side-effects, but they are all fairly well-known. Since the estrogen levels of the pill have been reduced, "you don't find any increasing toxity," Wacker says, adding that the pill has now been used safely for the past 15 to 16 years. Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard...
...Harvard study deals specifically with the effects of estrogen on women in the Greater Boston area who have been treated with estrogen products by an area doctor over the past 15 years, MacMahon said...
This evidence, published by doctors from the University of Seattle and the Kaiser Institute in Los Angeles this fall, has led federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials to push for tighter restrictions on drugs containing estrogen...
...just concerned with estrogen and breast cancer or estrogen and uterine cancer--we're concerned with estrogen and mortality," MacMahon said...