A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

A more nuanced understanding of hormone therapy now suggests that its benefits for heart health depend on how soon after ...

Oral hormone therapy may benefit heart health in menopausal women. A new analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative found that estrogen-based oral hormone therapy had a long-term beneficial ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco has found. This stops pain signals before they get to ...

A multi-institutional team analyzed data from hormone therapy clinical trials that were part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI)—a long-term national study focused on menopausal women—and ...

It’s no secret that women and men experience pain differently, and there are a variety of reasons to cause this variance in pain perception. Hormones are known to influence pain sensitivity, body ...

The hidden impact of menopause symptoms that millions of women endure in silence Why traditional hormone replacement therapies aren’t the right fit for every woman The natural hormone-balancing ...

The team doesn't quite understand how the female hormones trigger the release of the painkiller and plan to explore the phenomenon in a future study. The researchers have also begun looking at the ...

Hormonal intrauterine devices were associated with a higher incidence of rosacea in women compared with nonhormonal devices, according to a study. “We know that female hormones, estrogen and ...