Benefits of hormone replacement therapy shouldn t be ignored

By ACSH Staff — Oct 16, 2012
Under a barrage of conflicting information from medical scientists, women have been suffering the travails of severe menopausal symptoms needlessly because of a flawed 2002 study that led them to be fearful of taking hormone replacement therapy, ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross writes in his latest column on Examiner.com.

Under a barrage of conflicting information from medical scientists, women have been suffering the travails of severe menopausal symptoms needlessly because of a flawed 2002 study that led them to be fearful of taking hormone replacement therapy, ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross writes in his latest column on Examiner.com.

HRT is the most valuable method to relieve menopausal symptoms, and as long as it s used early in menopause and for the fewest number of years needed, it s quite safe, he writes.

Read the full column here.