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...into the office of New York City gynecologist Robert A. Wilson. To Wilson, she was nothing less than a revelation or, to be more precise, a walking, talking confirmation of his most deeply held medical convictions. Wilson was a leading proponent of treating menopausal women with the female hormone estrogen. He was convinced that, given early enough and continued throughout life, hormone treatment could actually prevent what he called the "staggering catastrophe" of menopause and the "fast and painful aging process" that attended...
Women who take estrogen after menopause have a 46 percentgreater risk of breast cancer, according to a new report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. An increasing number of doctors are giving the hormone to older women because ofits ability to strengthen bones and ward off heart trouble. But the new findings suggest such benefits may come at a steep price. Several earlier studies had indicated a link between estrogen and breast cancer, butthis is the largest survey yet, based on results from the Nurses Health Study, which has followed 121,700 women nurses since 1972. While...
Activities to promote women have also become more visible in the academic arenas. Women in Science have had extraordinary sales of their "estrogen" shirts, depicting the molecular makeup of that essential hormone; Women in Economics and Government have hosted a series of dinners to promote relations between students and faculty...
Deaths from heart disease have declined by 30 percent in older women who have taken estrogen for ten years or more, according to a study announced at the American Heart Association's annual epidemiology meeting Thursday. The research studied white women aged 65 to 74. No benefits were shown for women older than 75, or in those who took the drug for less than 10 years. Heart disease strikes six in nine American women and killed 237,000 American women in 1990. While other studies have indicated a beneficial link between estrogen and heart disease, researchers are not certain...
Lean women, including many athletes, have very little body fat, so a part of the brain called the hypothalamus represses the woman's menstrual cycle by keeping estrogen levels...